[12] _Servituty._ These are of different kinds. [13] Bride-maidens--girls of marriageable age. [14] Thick chicken soup with balls of flour. [15] Father. [16] Of the bridegroom in Shool to the Reading of the Law. [17] The Friday nearest December 21. [18] Diminutive of Tate = Father. [19] No unbaptized Jew may become an official in the courts in Russia. [20] For the soul of the dead, to wash and dry itself. [21] A verst is .663 of a mile. [22] A Lithuanian mile = 5.56 English miles. [23] A Jew taken from his home as a child, under Nicholas I, estranged from his family and his faith, and made to serve in the army. [24] Jewish name for the typical Russian. [25] Addressing them in Polish instead of Russian. [26] "When you are a hundred and twenty years old"--the ideal age for the Jew, the age reached by Moses. [27] Get up! Russian. [28] Three men necessary for a certain form of grace. [29] Pièkalik--built on to the stove. [30] Little souls fly, little souls fly! [31] "You also have a soul?" Polish. [32] Because he was suspected of not keeping the dietary laws. [33] Our little Talmud student would not be familiar with much of the Prophets' writings beyond what is contained in the prayer-book. The study of the Prophets savored rather of free-thinking. [34] A tiny bit of wood tied up and thrown away with the nails. The superstitions behind this practice are not confined to the Jews. [35] Which had been invested with wonder-working powers. [36] "Fine meal," as in Gen. xviii. 3; used also figuratively. [37] Head-dress with broad ribbon to hide the hair of a married woman. [38] A celebrated Hebrew novel by Mapu. [39] Eve of the Day of Atonement. [40] Pious offerings dropped into the collecting-box of "Meïr Baal-Ness," to be found in every orthodox Jewish house. The money is for the poor Jews in Palestine. [41] Free meals given to poor students at the tables of different householders. [42] Instead of bringing him up to the study of the Law. [43] The man in the moon is sometimes identified with Joshua in Jewish legend. [44] According to the Talmudical legend. [45] Little Jew. [46] Adapted from the twelfth principle of the Jewish faith, relating to the Messiah. [47] Sabbath dish prepared the day before, and kept in a heated oven overnight. [48] Bontzye "mum." [49] Men of great learning in the Law. [50] By which the law is made applicable to an elderly woman. [51] Grandsons. A celebrated Rebbe would have "sons" and "grandsons" among his adherents. The former would remain, the latter would come and go in companies and more or less respectable conveyances. [52] Owing to the emigration of the younger men to America in the "bad times." [53] "Chapter of Song," a Midrash, found in some editions of the prayer-book. [54] "Töre is die beste S'chöre." From a Yiddish cradle-song. [55] Hebrew blessing before eating bread. [56] According to the Talmudic legend like Moses and other saints.