M. FRIEDLÄNDER. Jews’ College, 3 Iyar 5651. PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION. The first edition being exhausted a second edition has been prepared. There is no cause for any change in the body of the book. Religion, both “Glaubenslehre” and “Pflichtenlehre,” are given as objectively as possible, and the most rigid examination of all that is taught in “The Jewish Religion,” discovered no misstatement. A few unimportant errors, which according to the Psalmist (Ps. xix) are excusable, are rectified in the list of Errata. Questions concerning religious principles which have arisen in the Community since the publication have been foreseen and dealt with according to Law and Tradition. A few notes are added in the second edition, where further elucidations seemed necessary. There is also appended the bibliography of text-books of Jewish Religion, an abstract of a paper on Religious Education, read before the Jews’ College Literary Society, and the prayer which in the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogues is offered up by the Barmitzvah when called to the Law. The latter practice is worthy of imitation. M. F. London, Adar I., 5660. CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction 1–18 What is Judaism? 2 OUR CREED. Faith as commended in Bible and Tradition 5 Faith according to Saadiah 9 ,, ,, ,, Ibn Gabirol 11 ,, ,, ,, Dunash ben Tamim, Bachya b. Joseph 12 ,, ,, ,, Shem-tob; Abraham b. David; Jehudah hallevi 13 ,, ,, ,, Ibn Ezra; Maimonides; Joseph Albo 14 ,, ,, ,, Eliah del Medigo 15 ,, ,, ,, Moses Mendelssohn 16