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PREFACE

Maimon: an Autobiography*, translated from the German by J. Clark Murray, p. 28 (1888). The original appeared in 1792.

  1. Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, II. 689 (1883).
  1. "There exists in Jewish literature no book more difficult to understand than the Sepher Yetzirah."--Phineas Mordell in the Jewish Quarterly Review, New Series, Vol. II. p. 557.
  1. Paul Vulliaud, La Kabbale Juive: histotre et doctrine, 2 vols. (Émile Nourry, 62 Rue des Écoles, Paris, 1923). This book, neither the work of a Jew nor of an "anti-Semite," but of a perfectly impartial student, is invaluable for a study of the Cabala rather as a vast compendium of opinions than as an expression of original thought.
  1. "Rab Hanina and Rab Oschaya were seated on the
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