=Chabib.= _See_ Amatus Lusitanus. =Chabulon.= _See_ Cabul. =Chaburah=, order, =2=, 364. =Chacham=, officer of the Synhedrion, =2=, 360. office of, ceases, =2=, 453. title of the Amsterdam rabbis, =4=, 681. title of the Hamburg rabbis, =4=, 689; =5=, 577. =Chacham Zevi.= _See_ Zevi Ashkenazi. =Chacon=, Castilian farmer of taxes, =4=, 275. =Chadija=, wife of Mahomet, =3=, 71. =Chages, Jacob= (1620-1674), recluse at Jerusalem, =5=, 126. teacher of Nathan Ghazati, =5=, 131. threatens Sabbataï Zevi with excommunication, =5=, 132. =Chages, Moses=, denounces Chayon’s work as heretical, =5=, 222. excommunicates Chayon, =5=, 224. abused by the Amsterdam Portuguese Jews, =5=, 224. excommunicated and driven from Amsterdam, =5=, 226. in Altona, =5=, 231. opposes Luzzatto’s Kabbala, =5=, 238. threatens Kabbalistic writers with the ban, =5=, 239. forbids the study of Kabbala to young men, =5=, 241. deprecates leniency towards Eibeschütz, =5=, 249-50. opposes the Eibeschütz Talmud edition, =5=, 251. returns to Palestine, =5=, 256. =Chaggai= (Haggai), teacher of the Law, attacks Judah II, =2=, 485. a Palestinian Amora, =2=, 560. member of the last Synhedrion, =2=, 567. =Chaibar=, Israelites settle in, =3=, 54. the Benu-Nadhir settle in, =3=, 79. =Chaibar, the Jews of=, descendants of the Rechabites, fortifications held by, =3=, 55. threatened by Mahomet, =3=, 81-2. roused against Mahomet, =3=, 82-3. driven away by Omar, =3=, 85. preserve love for Arabic, =3=, 111. object to Talmudic restraints, =3=, 119. in the twelfth century, =3=, 437. =Chaifa=, burial place of Nachmani and Yechiel of Paris, =3=, 608. “=Chain= of Tradition, The,” by Gedalya Ibn-Yachya, =4=, 616. =Chaireas=, commander of the fortress Joazer, =1=, 474. =Chakan= (Chagan), title of the Chazar kings, =3=, 138. =Chalafta=, member of the Jamnia Synhedrion, =2=, 357. =Chalcis=, prince of. _See_ Herod II. =Chaldæan= garrison in Judah, =1=, 321. =Chaldæans=, the. _See_ Nebuchadnezzar. =Chaldaic= translations of Scriptures, =2=, 581-2. =Chaldee=, taught as a means of conversion, =4=, 245. =Chalil=, vizir, tries to save Esther Kiera, =4=, 630. =Chama of Nahardea= (356-377), Amora, =2=, 593. principal of the Pumbeditha academy, =2=, 594. insignificance of, =2=, 594-5. =Chama ben Anilaï=, a Jew of Sora, =2=, 545-6. =Chamath=, military station under Hadrian, =2=, 419. =Chambéry=, supposed center of the well poisoners, =4=, 102. =Chamiz, Joseph=, physician, and Leo Modena, =5=, 67. Kabbalist, =5=, 74. =Champagne=, the home of Talmud studies after Rashi, =3=, 289. Talmud college of, =3=, 403. =Chanan=, prince of the Jews of Taima, =3=, 437. =Chanan of Iskia=, restores the Pumbeditha academy, =3=, 9.