56 אב בית דין, נשיא, “Prince,” or “Patriarch,” religious head, of the Jews (not political), and “Father (or president) of the Court of Justice.” 57 מנחות, זבחים, “Sacrifices,” “Offerings.” They treat of the laws relating to sacrifices and meal‐offerings. 58 בלאים, the laws relating to diverse seeds and garments of diverse sorts. Cf. Deut. xxii. 9‐11. 59 מגיד, “Teller,” a sort of travelling preacher. 60 לולב, “palm branch.” Cf. Lev. xxiii. 40. 61 ישיבה, “High School,” or “Academy,” in which the Rabbinic literature is studied. 62 ישיבה עץ חיים. 63 סמבטיון, a mythical river which is supposed to stop its course on Sabbath. 64 בחורים, sing. בחור, “Young man,” by which term the Jews usually understand the _alumni_ of their Talmudical schools. 65 Levi b. Gershom (1286‐1344) is generally regarded as the greatest successor of Maimonides. Besides his rationalistic commentaries on the Bible, he wrote various treatises on metaphysics, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, etc. 66 בחינת עולם. 67 In Steinschneider’s _Catalogue of the Bodleian Library_, under the name of Moses Nachmanides, pp. 1947‐1965, all the works which are ascribed to this author are put together, and also discussed as to their authenticity. There are only to be added the new edition of the _Derasha_ by Jellinek (Vienna, 1872), in which the variants from Schorr’s MS. (החלוץ, viii. 162) are already incorporated; a new edition of the זיכות, and the commentary to Is. lii.‐liii. by Steinschneider (Berlin, 1860); a _Sermon_ for the New Year, ed. by H. Berliner (_Libanon_, v. 564); and another Sermon at a wedding (?), ed. by Schorr (_Hechalus_, xii. 3). For the literature on Nachmanides, besides the references given by Steinschneider, in his _Catalogue_, and the Addenda, p. cxviii. (cf. also the pedigree in the _Catalogue_ 2305), see also Graetz, _Geschichte_, vii., pp. 112‐143, and p. 147 _seq._; Michael, אור החיים, No. 1125, and Weiss, דור דור ודערקיו, v. 4 _seq._; Perles’ _Monatsschrift_, 1860, p. 175; Zomber, _ibid._ 421; and Z. Frankel, _ibid._ 1868, p. 449, and _The Jewish Quarterly Review_, iv. 245 _seq._ For Nachmanides’ disputation we have to add M. Loeb in the _Révue des Études Juives_, xv. 1 _seq._, and xviii. 52 (about Abner), and Dr. Neubauer’s Essay on Jewish Controversy in the _Expositor_, vol. vii. (third series), p. 98 _seq._, with the references given there. See also his article on the Bahir and the Zohar in _The Jewish Quarterly Review_, iv. 357. With regard to Nachmanides’ mystical system see the references to S. Sachs (whose remarks are most suggestive), Krochmal, and Jellinek in Steinschneider, col. 1949 and 1964, Perles’ _Monatsschrift_, 1858, p. 83 _seq._, and Steinschneider in the Heb. _Bibliographie_, i. 34.