Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656Manasseh ben Israel
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Menasseh ben Israel's Mission to Oliver Cromwell: Being a reprint of the pamphlets published by Menasseh ben Israel to promote the re-admission of the Jews to England, 1649-1656
Manasseh ben Israel
Jews -- Great Britain
Lastly, all thinke, that part of the ten Tribes dwell beyond the river
_Sabbathian_, or sabbaticall. _Rabbi Johanan_ the Author of the
_Jerusalem Talmud_, who lived 160. yeares after the destruction of the
second Temple, saith in his treatise of the _Sanhedrim_, _cap._ 17. That
the ten Tribes were carryed into three places, _sc._ to the Sabbaticall
river, to _Daphne_ the suburbs of _Antioch_, and thither where a cloud
comes downe and covers them: And that they shall be redeemed from those
three places; for so he opens that place of _Isa._ Cha. 49.9. _That they
may say to the Captives, Goe forth_, (_sc._ to them who are at the
Sabbaticall river) _to them that are in darknesse, shew your selves_,
(_sc._ to them who are compassed with the cloud) _and to all, they shall
be refreshed in the wayes_, (_sc._ to them who live in _Daphne_ of
_Antioch_ which is in _Syria_.) Whence you may observe, that the learned
man _l’ Empereur_ translated it ill, _at the sides of Antioch_, whereas
_Daphne_ is the proper name of a pleasant Grove near _Antioch_. _Sedar
olam_ makes mention of that cloud, and calls them _mountaines of
obscurity_, And in _Talmud tractat. Sanhedr._ _c._ 11. _R. Jonathan ben
Uziel_, who lived a hundred yeares before the destruction of the second
Temple, in _Exod._ 34.10. where the Lord saith, _I will doe wonders
before all thy people, such as was never done in the whole earth, or in
any Nation_, &c. and he refers all those things to the transportation of
the people. _He shall draw them to the rivers of Babylon: and shall
carry them to the Sabbaticall river, and shall teach them, that those
miracles were never performed to any Nation of the known world._
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