[2] The extracts marked thus (1) were done into verse from the German of Geiger, by the late Amy Levy. [3] From Atonement Service. [4] Hebrew for Toledo. [5] Alcharisi. [6] E. B. Browning. [7] No authority gives it later than 1140. [8] Rabbi Seira. [9] ‘The Lord God doth like a printer who setteth the letters backward; we see and feel well His setting, but the print we shall see yonder in the life to come.’--Luther’s _Table Talk_. [10] Gütle Rothschild, née Schnapper, died May 7, 1849. Her eldest son, Amschel Meyer Rothschild, was born June 12, 1773, died December 6, 1855. [11] Written in 1882. [12] The translation is by the late Amy Levy. [13] Messrs. Campe and Hoffmann erected their new offices during the publication (not too well paid) of the poet’s works. [14] Matthew Arnold, _Heinrich Heine_. [15] The Exhibition of 1855. [16] Written in 1882. [17] Short declaration of belief in Unity (Deut. vi. 4). [18] ‘Old Pictures from Florence.’ [19] _On Heroes_: Lect. vi., ‘The Hero as King,’ p. 342. [20] _Cromwell_, vol. ii. p. 359. [21] Some chroniclers fix it so early as 1653. [22] From ‘Declaration to the Commonwealth of England.’ [23] Jeremiah xxix. 7. [24] In 1369. [25] Maimonides, in his well-known digest of Talmudic laws relating to the poor, uniformly employs _tzedakah_ in the sense of ‘alms.’ [26] חטא יךאי (_yeree chet_). These ultra-sensitive folks seem to have feared that in direct relief they might be imposed on and so indirectly become encouragers of wrong-doing, or unnecessarily hurt the feelings of the poor by too rigid inquiries. [27] We read, in mediæval times, of the existence of wide ‘extensions’ of this system of relief. In a curious old book, published in the seventeenth century, by a certain Rabbi Elijah ha Cohen ben Abraham, of Smyrna, we find a list drawn up of Jewish charities to which, as he says, ‘all pious Jews contribute.’ These modes of satisfying ‘the hungry soul’ are over seventy in number, and of the most various kinds. They include the lending of money and the lending of books, the payment of dowries and the payment of burial charges, doctors’ fees for the sick, legal fees for the unjustly accused, ransom for captives, ornaments for bribes, and wet nurses for orphans. [28] Spanish Jews often had their coffins made from the wood of the tables at which they had sat with their unfashionable guests. [29] This custom had survived into quite modern times--to cite only the well-known case of Mendelssohn, who, coming as a penniless student to Berlin, received his Sabbath meals in the house of one co-religionist, and the privilege of an attic chamber under the roof of another. [30] William Blake. [31] Shimei. [32] In the correspondence with Lavater. [33] Better known to scholars as Dr. Aaron Solomon Gompertz. [34] Later, the noted publisher of that name.