[114] Rabbinical amplification of the Biblical text.
[115] This is an allegory referring to certain aspects of Zionism.
[116] "Happy, etc.," Ps. lx.x.xiv. 5, three times dally in the prayers.
[117] When the weeping female relatives of the sick force their way through the male congregation to the Ark, throw it open, and bedew the scrolls with their tears.
[118] Confirmed.
[119] A man of influence. Hebrew.
[120] The Rebbe's.
[121] Rich man's wife. Hebrew.
[122] Hannah my crown.
[123] Chazan, the reader or reciter of the prayers in the synagogue
[124] Reciting of prescribed prayers.
[125] Lest the meat and milk should not be ritually permitted.
[126] Our brothers, the children of Israel.
[127] Kind of cloak.
[128] Russian term of contempt, in contradistinction to _Yevrei_ = Hebrew.
[129] This was an important article of trade, required for the peasants'
carts, etc.
[130] Wedding jester and improvisatore.
[131] Croup.
[132] He visited, I visited. Hebrew.
[133] A kind of cake.
[134] Gymnasium, in Russia as in Germany, is a college.
[135] Idol. Hebrew.
[136] As of those religious precepts which it is not possible to carry out literally.
[137] Qualification for eternal bliss.
[138] A suburb of Warsaw.
[139] Russian officials.
[140] As beseemed an orthodox, married Jewess.
[141] Allusion to the ceremony performed on the eve of the Day of Atonement, when a c.o.c.k or hen is twirled round the head, and a prayer is read.
[142] The seventh day of Tabernacles.
[143] The eighth day of Tabernacles.
[144] To the teaching of the Cha.s.sidim.
[145] "The great Rabbi Loeb" who lived in the sixteenth century, and who became the central figure of many a legend.
[146] No Gentile to be hired for that purpose.