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A30785	The Jewish synagogue, or, An historical narration of the state of the Jewes at this day dispersed over the face of the whole earth ... / translated out of the learned Buxtorfius ... by A.B., Mr. A. of Q. Col. in Oxford.	Buxtorf, Johann, 1599-1664.; A. B., Mr. A. of Q. Col. in Oxford.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6347; ESTC R23867	293,718	328

Which done shee raised the unleavened loaves which are to be eaten in the time of the Passeover These are commonly made round full of little holes pierced through with an iron much like to a horse-combe that the aire posting along through the portals of the cake may preserve it from leavening They use great hast in setting them into the oven not suffering them to stand any time in the bake house which taken out againe wanting both salt and fatnesse and kneaded onely with water have neither taste nor relish Hence it comes to passe that some honest huswifes put eggs into them that they may be more gratefull to the tast It hath been related unto me that some of the richer sort of the Jewes make these their paschall cakes of almonds not onely in honour of the Feast but for the pleasing of the palate Before the fifth houre of the day bee fully come to passe which is the eleventh with us they goe unto dinner eating little and such mea●es as are easie of digestion from that time forward untill the starres appeare in the firmament that they may with a more greedy appetite eate up at supper their un●ea●ened cakes If any one in the time bee oppressed with thirst he may not drink water but it is lawfull for him to carouse a full bowle of wine because it is very good to helpe the stoma●k Supper being ended they cast all the leavened bread which they found the night afore into the fire and burn it The Master of the houshold saying these words Let all the leaven and every thing leavened which is under my hand seen or unseen purged or not purged being utterly dissipated or destroied be accounted like unto the dust of the earth The first born in the evening of the passeover are injoined to fast from morning untill night because God in times past did preserve the first born of the children of Israel and suffered not the destroier to come in unto them At mid-day they cease to labour yet it is no offence for them in the afternoon to wash their clothes to fet●h●home new ones from the Taylor to put them on in honour of the feast I conclude with the words of our Saviour Take heed of the ●●aven of the Pharisees and Sadduces that is to say of their false doctrine and hypocrisie CHAP. XIII Of the manner how the Jewes celebrate their Feast of the Passeover according to the Jewish forme IN the evening of the passeover when it begins to be night they hasten into the Synagogue where partly by praying partly by singing they offer up their evening sacrifice of prayer and thanksgiving according to the forme set downe in their books of common prayer The women at home light two great lamps accordingly as they did upon the Sabbath yet they doe not here begin the Feast as they did then by the consecration of wine for there is none whose estate is at the lowest ebb but hee will have a cup of choice wine to welcome the feast withall but only sit in the Synagogue untill their returne unto their own houses In the meane time their wives at home doe very honourably furnish the table placing thereupon vessels of gold and silver and other precious thing according to the severall estate of every one in particular for at this season every man ought to make shew of his riches not in a vaine boasting ostentation but in honour to the Feast For the dolefull remembrance which ought continually to be inserted in their minds concerning the desaoltions of the Temple of Jerusalem and also intermixt with all their joy and jollities is a sufficient curb for the former A chaire of Estate is provided for the Master of the family adorned with silke pillowes or cushions upon which hee may sit leane and rest himselfe the wals of his house and the places about the table being hung with costly darnicks or cloth of arras and that in as curious a manner as possibly can bee invented In such like chaires they seat themselves and leane against the wals thus adorned like some great Lords or potentates who being delivered out of the Egyptian bondage should no more bee inthralled therewith for every one of them upon the two first nights of the Festivall conceits himselfe to be some great Duke or mighty Prince one redeemed from the servility of exile though in very deed hee bee the veriest tag rag that ever went from doore to doore one of the poorer sort who is forced to hold his dish under another mans ladle having not so much as an old shirt to supply the place of a Carpet or any more costly cushion then a turfe will place himselfe this night in some worm-eaten chaire and counterfeit such Court-like postures as though he were some young Baron who had danced away the greatest part of his meanes in learning and practising the light and nimble carriage of his body As for the women it is not needfull for them to leane themselves against anything When it is late at night they make great speed out of the Synag gue and feather their heels with expedition to revisite their owne homes where they are no sooner entred but they command a certaine platter to bee set before them in which lie three cakes wrapped up in two napkins The uppermost of which represen●s the High Priest the middle the tribe of L vi and the lowest the whole congregation of Israel There is also another platter set upon the table in which is the haun●h of a lambe or of a kid together with an egge hard rosted A dish of postage is the next service made with apples peares nuts figs almonds orenges and such like fruits first boiled in wine looking as though they were mixt with bruised bricks Upon these they straw many spices but especially cinamon scarce beaten at all so that this kind of pottage seems to have in them both clay and straw in remembrance that their forefathers out of these materials made bricks in the land of Egypt Moreover they grace the table with a sallet made of herbes of an eager taste as lettice ivye raddish persley savory cresses and such like Over against which they place another dish full of vinegar in memory that their ancestors eat the paschall lambe with bitter herbs The table being thus furnished they in great hast take their place every one old and young yea the very infant lying as yet in the cradle hath a bowle of wine presented unto him and then the Master of the house consecrates the cup and gives an orderly beginning to the feast Grace being said every one takes up his whole one resting himselfe upon the left arme and pressing with his elbow his silken pillow as though hee were some right honourable and thrice noble Lord and Potentate Some wash their hands before the giving of thanks some after Concerning which many disputes are extant in the Talmud and for decision of the controversie

ever compared unto him The eighth Article is concerning the Law that it was so delivered to Moses by Gods owne mouth as it is now extant amongst them The manner how it was given whether by writing or dictated of God to Moses by word of mouth it is not needful to inquire If it proceeded from the mouth of God then is it necessary that every parcel thereof should be truth and in this respect no difference to be made amongst the particular clauses of holy Writ as these I am the Lord thy God c. and Thumia was the Concubine of Eliphaz who came of Esau as also The Sons of Ham were Cush and Mizraim phut and Canaan and this Heare O Israel the Lord thy God is one God and others of the same sort seeing they are all Gods true and holy Word After the like manner the Exposition of the divine Law Mippi haggeburah came from Gods owne mouth as also all the things observable in the celebration of their bulabh or feast of Tabernacles as the blowing of Trumpets Zizim Tephillim concerning which things notwithstanding there is not one expresse word found in the Law of Moses yet are they kept no otherwise then God hath with open mouth delivered them to Moses and Moses unto us and Moses God himselfe bearing him witnesse Numb 12. 7. was faithfull in all his house And they are his own words Numb 16. 28. Hereby you shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these Works for I have not done them of mine own mind The ninth Article concerning the change of the Law that the Law of Moses shall never be abrogated or any other succeed in the place thereof and that nothing need to be added unto it or taken away from it that not one jot or title shall be annexed or perish from the holy Scripture neither that any Exposition shall make it subject to augmentation or diminution whereupon it shal come to passe that Gods holy Temple and the City Jerusalem shall again be re-edified the sacrifices and Mosaical ceremonies restored and the Jewes themselves at length to be brought back again into their own Land that they may for ever observe and keep the Law of Moses The tenth Article needs no other explication then the Scripture comments The eleventh Article is concerning the reward due to good and evil works the reward of good deeds is the world to come and life eternal the punishment of evil the souls eternal destruction and damnation whereupon it is written Exod. 32. 32 33. Yet now if thou wilt for give their sin and if not blot me I pray thee out of the booke which thou hast written And the Lord said unto Moses he who hath sinned against me him will I blot out of my booke The twelfth Article is concerning the comming of the Messias whose comming is to be expected as certaine though he long delay it yea none ought or dare to prescribe unto him certain time any determinate time for his advent neither wil they suffer the holy Scriptures to be searched into that this sulness of time in which he should come may be made manifest Hereupon their Chachamim and Rabbins deeply grounded in the Jewes Religion were wont to say tippach ruchan schel mechaschebbe Kitzim I wish they may breath out their own souls who go about to set down the time of his approach They teach that our trust and confidence is to be settled on the Messias that he is to be loved praised and petitioned that he will come quickly even as all the Prophets from Moses to Malachi were wont to do when on the contrary whosoever doubts of his comming gives the whole Law the lie yea but the whole Law doth make the miserable poor and blinde Jew a Liar who doubting that he is not come believes he shall come when he is already come in which a plain and clear promise concerning this matter is enrolled especially in parascha The 13. Article is concerning the Resurrection of the dead of which there is nothing now to be spoken whosoever therefore faithfully believes these 13. Articles is accounted one of the number of the Israelites yea such an one who is to be loved whom every one ought to commiserate and unto whom he ought to perform wh●●soever God the Creator hath commanded to be done to a neighbour or brother out of Sincere love unfeigned affection and brotherly kindness yea they esteem him a man of that constitution that though he commit all the offences which in the world become the fewell to set a fire the whole course of Nature with burning lusts and consume it with inbred malice and therefore suffer punishment in this World according to the nature and measure of his sin yet shall he inherit eternal life being placed in the Kalender of the sinners of Israel Whosoever destroyes the foundation on which these Articles are built or commits a trespass against any one of them by his infidelity they affirm that he hath neither part nor portion in Israel that he hath denied his God is to be abhorred like a swinish Epicure because he hath rooted up that which was once implanted in him according to the most exquisite skill of the Artificer and therefore he deserves no other then to be rejected abandoned and perish utterly of such an one speaks the Prophet Psal 139. 21. Do I not hate them O Lord that hate thee and am I not grieved with those that rise up against thee Thus hitherto I have more at large expounded the genuine sense of the Jewish Creed out of Rabbi Moses the Son of Maimon more birefly written and nominated by the Jewish Synagogue Rambam with this intent that every one might more clearly perceive and know to what end this beliefe of the Jews was directed whose Articles if any with a more serious scrutiny into their own writings search and examine he may with great facility conclude that when Rambam had brought these Articles into order and with severe threanings of extirpation of the Jewish name and the losse of their souls enjoyning every one unto the confession of them to have had no other aim● then the overthrow of Christian Religion among the Jewes intending to put upon it the badge of falshood for making it hatefull unto them he might for ever terrifie them from the imbracing of it Hence the Articles concerning God the Creator that he is one alone incorporeal and eternal hitherto muster up their forces that they condemning the Christian doctrine of the Trinity and Christs person might make it liable to contempt as though that we Christians by maintaining a Trinity did also infer a plurality of Gods or that Christ should not be God nor partake in his Fathers essence because it was his pleasure to assume our flesh in time not from eternity whereupon when hence it follows that he is no God it may serve for a necessary

long as the oake or other of that kinde for saith the lord as the dayes of a tree are the dayes of my people and my elect shall long enioy the works of their hands and againe there shall be no more thence an infant of dayes nor an old man that hath not filled his dayes for the child shall die an hundred yeares old bnt the Sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed which is as much as to say if any die at an hundred years of age it shall be said of him that he died as a little infant or in his infancy for at that time the years of life of the Israelites shall be equal to them of the fathers from Adam to Noah as Abenezra comments upon the place The ninth is that God shall so clearly manifest himself to the Israelites that they shall see him face to face As it is recorded The glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see together because the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Yea all the Lords people shall be Prophets as it is written It shall come to pass afterward that I will powr out my spirit upon all flesh and your sons and your daughters shall prophesie your old men shall dream dreams your yong men shall see visions The last degree of comfort is that God shall quite root out of them all imbred lusts and inclinations unto evil as it is written A new heart also will I give you and a new spirit will I put within you and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh and I will give you an heart of flesh Hitherto we have delivered what we promised out of the book called Abhkas r●chel in which though it be summarily set down what the Jews beleeve concerning their Messias as also the manner how he is to bring them back to Jerusalem yet I think not impertinent in this place a litle more largely to declare with what solemnities their Messias shal give them intertainement in their own land and with what happiness and felicitie they shall lead their lives under him When then the Messias hath gathered all the Jews together out of all the nations under heaven and from the foure winds of the earth and hath brought them unto the land of Canaan flowing with milk and hony then shall he cause to be prepared a sumptuous and delicate banquet inviting and friendly welcoming unto it all the Jews with great pomp and joy inexpressible At this banquet shall be dished up and served in the greatest beastes fishes and fouls that ever God created The worst wine that they shall drink shall be that whose grape had its growth in paradise and hath been barrel'd up and reserved in Adams Cellar unto that time The first dish in this feast shall be that huge oxe described in the book of Job to be of such great strength and magnitude named Behemoth This the Rabbines affirme to be the same oxe whereof David makes mention in his 50 Psalm and 10 verse All the beasts of the forrest are mine and the cattel Behemoth feeding on a thousand hills that is to say which every day eateth up the grass of a thousand hils But a man will aske what at length would have become of this oxe if he had lived so long seeing he had long since eaten up all his fodder The Rabbines learnedly answer that this oxe is stall-fed and remains always in the same place and that whatsoever he eateth on the day grows again upon the night in the same length and forme The second dish adorning the table shall be that vast whale Leviathan according to the Jewish tone Pronounced Lipiasan who is also described in the book of Job and mentioned in other places of holy writ Concerning these two beasts there hath bin handsomly compiled this tradition by the wit and ingenuity of the solid pated Rabbins in their Talmud it runs thus Rabbi Jehudah saith that what thing soever God created in the world he created it male and female and that without all doubt for he created the Leviathan yet least the he and she Leviathan by engendring should augment the number and at length by there monstrous magnitude and multitude destroy the whole world God gelded the male and killed the female reserving her in pickle to be meat for them that are just in Judah and feared him in the dayes of the Messias as it is written In that day will the lord with a sore and great and strong sword punish Leviathan the piercing serpent even Leviathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea In the same manner he created that great ox called Behemoth feeding on a thousand hils male and female yet lest by multiplying they might fill and destroy the earth he gelded the male and killed the female reserving it for the Jewes diet in time to come as it is written Loe now his strength is in his loynes and his force in the navell of his belly he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him The third dish in this banquet as Elias Levita in his dictionarie named Tesbi out of the Rabbins reports shall be that horrible huge bird called Barinchue which killed and unboweld shall then be rosted Concerning this bird it is written in the Talmud she cast an Egge out of her nest by whose fall three hundred tall Cedars were broken down and the Egge breaking in the full drowned three score villages By this relation it is easie to conceive this bird to have been little inferiour in greatnes to the forementioned oxe and fish whence we may also collect how glorious a dish the Messias is to make of it for his guests and when there are many such birds Guls I think found in the land of Judah none ought to think that which is reported of this to be fabulous In the forementioned book of the Talmud we read of a certain great crow which was seen of a Rabbine worthy to be credited The relation runs thus Rabbi barchannah saith At a certain time I saw a frog which is as great as the village Akra in Hagronia well how big was the village It consisted of no fewer then threescore houses Then came a mighty serpent and swallowed up this frog Instantly upon this a great crow flying that way picked up as a small morsel both the frog and the serpent and taking him to flight sat upon a Tree now think with your selves how great and strong this tree must be To which Rabbi papa the son of Samuel making answer unless I had been in the place and with these mine eyes seen the very tree I would not have beleeved it Thus much the Talmudist Who dare give the lie to this Rabbine When that good man Kimchi commenting on the fifty Psalm and explaining the word Ziz hath there witnessed that Rabbi