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  • Midrash, continued.
    • beast fables in, 64-67.
    • and the Piyut, 86, 88-89.
    • used by Rashi, 123, 124.
  • Midrash Maggadol, a Midrashic work, 58.
  • Midrash Rabbah, a Midrashic work, 58.
  • Mikdash Meät, by Moses Rieti, 186.
  • Minhag, established by the Gaonim, 69.
  • Miphaloth Elohim, by Abarbanel, 229.
  • Mishnah, a paragraph of the Mishnah, 31.
  • Mishnah, the, origin of, 22.
    • principle of, 24.
    • compiled by Rabbi, 28.
    • contents and style of, 29-31.
    • divisions of, 31.
    • development of, 43. See Talmud, the.
    • date of, 52.
    • Sherira, on, 70.
    • Maimon's commentary on, 135.
    • commentary on, 206.
    • personified, 239.
  • Mishneh Torah. See "Strong Hand, The,"
  • Moed, order of the Mishnah, 31.
  • Mohammedanism assumed by the Maimon family, 135.
  • Moreh Nebuchim, See "Guide of the Perplexed, The."
  • Moses, teachings of, summarized, 140.
  • Moses of Leon, author of the Zohar, 172, 173.
  • Moses, the son of Chanoch, founds a school at Cordova, 97.
  • Meses, the son of Maimon. See Maimonides, Moses.
  • Moses Ibn Ezra, and the Scriptures, 107, 109.
    • life of, 112-113.
    • quotation from, 113-114.
    • hymns of, 114.
    • Charizi on, 114.
  • Moses Ibn Tibbon, translator, 148.
  • Moses Alshech, homiletical writer, 230.
  • Moses Kimchi, grammarian, 117.
  • Moses Minz, author of "Responses," 237.
  • Moses Rieti, poet, 186-187.
  • Mysticism, an element of religion, 169-170.
    • in Judaism, 170.

  • Nachmanides, Moses, Talmudist, 160-168.
    • on the French Rabbis, 160, 162.
    • as a poet, 162.
    • gentleness of, 163.
    • in a disputation, 163-164.
    • in Palestine, 165.
    • as an exegete, 165-168.
    • teacher of, 171.
    • will of, 195.
    • Nahar, poet, 109.
  • "Name of the Great Ones, The," by Chayim Azulai, 220.
  • Naples, Abarbanel in, 226.
  • Nashim, order of the Mishnah, 31.
  • "Nathan the Wise," by Lessing, 256.
  • Nathan, the son of Yechiel, lexicographer, 121.
  • Nehardea, centre of Jewish learning, 44.
  • Nehemiah Chayun, Kabbalist, 176.
  • New-Hebrew as a literary language, 83.
  • New-Hebrew poetry, and the Scriptures, 107.
    • characteristics of, 108-109.
    • after Jehuda Halevi, 130-131, 132.
    • See also Piyut.
  • Nezikin, order of the Mishnah, 31.
  • Nicholas, monk, translator, 150.
  • "Novelties," Notes on the Talmud, 234.
  • Numco, character in Samuel Usque's poem, 218.

  • Obadiah of Bertinoro, Rabbi of Jerusalem, 206.
  • Omar, forbids Jews to enter Jerusalem, 205.
  • Onkelos, See Aquila.
  • Orach Chayim, part of the Shulchan Aruch, 239, 240.
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