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A47706	The history of the rites, customes, and manner of life, of the present Jews, throughout the world. VVritten in Italian, by Leo Modena, a rabbine of Venice. Translated into English, by Edmund Chilmead, Mr. of Arts, and chaplain of Christ-Church Oxon; Historia de' riti hebraici, vita ed osservanze de gl'Hebrei di questi tempi. English	Modena, Leone, 1571-1648.; Chilmead, Edmund, 1610-1654.	1650 (1650)	Wing L1099A; ESTC R216660	90,789	288

finding thine Own pleasure nor speaking thine Own words c. 7. They may not touch or handle any thing of Weight or burthen nor any Tool or Instrument of any Act or Work that may not be done upon the Sabbath 8. They may not walk above a mile from the Citie or place where they dwel that is to say Two Thousand Yards 9. There are besides these things many other Particulars Forbidden by the Rabbines for the more certain avoiding of all manner of Businesse or Work of Handicrafts to be done that day as for example The handling of any Money which is the Cause and Occasion of all manner of Trading as likewise Riding on Horseback Going by Water Playing upon any Musical Instrument or Bathing 10. In case of any Persons being Ill or Diseased if the Grief require onely the Chirurgeons hand there are many and severe Restraints laid upon them by the Rabbines But if the Physicians help be necessarie if he esteem it a sicknesse of any danger although it be not great and so likewise in Case of any Woman being newly brought to bed the Physician hath Libertie to do any thing 11. On Friday then every one provides himself of whatsoever he shall need the day following as the Children of Israel did of old in gathering their Manna as it is written Exod. cap. 16. ver 5. Die autem sexto parent quod inferant c. And it shall come to passe that on the sixt day they shall prepare that which they bring in and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily And they account it a Good Work to spend Liberallie that day in honour of the Feast as it is written in Isaiah cap. 58. ver 13. Et glorificaveris eum c. and shalt honour Him c. and they willinglie employ themselves even in the Meanest Offices that are any whit tending to the Honour of the Sabbath 12. They do not begin any kind of businesse or work upon the Friday unlesse they are very well able to finish it fully some while before the Evening comes on and when it is now within an hour of Sun-set they set their Meat on the Fire in the best manner they can that so it may be readie to eat against the next day and having done this they make an end of working any more till the Sabbath be over In many Cities there is one that is appointed to go about and proclaim the Approaching of the Sabbath about some half an hour before the time that it is to begin that so they may dispatch and quit their hands of all manner of businesse whatsoever before the beginning of the Feast 13. When the 23. hour then of Friday is now come about half an hour before Sun-set the Feast is understood to be begun and then also the Forbearing from all Works that are Forbidden begins to take place And now the Women are bound to set up a Lamp in the house lighted which used to carry Four or Six Lights at least and this Lamp burneth the greatest part of the Night They also spread the Table with a Clean Table-cloath and set bread upon it and over the Bread they spread a long narrow Towel which covers it all over and this is done say They in Memorie of the Manna in the Wildernesse which in like manner descended upon the Earth being covered beneath and having a Dew on the top of it and on the Sabbath it fell not at all 14. There are many that shift themselves at that time putting on clean shirts and washing their Hands and Face and so go to the School where they say the 92. Psalm Bonum est confiteri Domino c. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord and to sing praises unto thy name O Thou most High c. together with the accustomed Prayers withall naming the Sabbath in their Prayers and rehearsing those Verses of Genesis cap. 2. Igitur perfecti sunt Coeli Terra c. Thus the Heavens and the Earth were finished and all the Host of them And on the seventh day God ended his Work which he had made c. And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it c. 15. Then do they return each man to his home and if they salute any one that night they do dot say unto him Good Even Nor the next day Good Morrow but alwaies their salutation is A good Sabbath to you and so the Fathers blesse their Children and the Masters their Scholars and some use to say certain Verses in Praise of the Sabbath either before or after Meat according as the Custome of the place is 16. When they are set down to Meat the Master of the Familie takes a Bowl of wine in his hand and saying the afore-cited Verses of Gen. cap. 2. Igitur perfecti sunt Coeli terra c. he giveth thanks to God who hath given them the Commandment of keeping the Sabbath and so he blesseth the Wine and drinketh of it and afterwards gives a little of it to each person at the Table with him Then doth he rehearse the 23. Psalm Dominus regit me c. The Lord is my Shepherd therefore can I lack nothing c. and so blesseth the Bread and giveth of it to all and after this they eat every one as much as sufficeth him as they likewise do each Meal the day following When they have done then do they wash their hands and so perform all those other ceremonies that we have before set down Par. 2. cap. 9. speaking of their Manner of sitting at Meat Some use to say after Meat the 104. Psal Benedic anima mea domino c. Blesse the Lord O my Soul c. 17. The next Morning they rise later then they usuallie do on the Week daies and go to the School where after the singing of many Psalms and the Accustomed Prayers together with certain Laudatory Prayers in honour of the Sabbath they take out the Book of the Law before spoken of and read the Lessons or Portion of it appointed for that day and this is done by seven persons after this they read some place or other out of the Prophets which they find to be most suitable to the Ordinarie Lesson for the day and this is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Haphtarah Lectio Dimissoria a Dimissory Lesson and this is read by some Child for the most part to exercise him in Reading the Scripture 18. After this they take the said Book and holding it up on high that it may be seen by all they blesse all the Assistants 19. Then is there a solemn Benediction said for the Prince of that State under which they live wherein they pray to God that he would preserve Him in Peace and Quietnesse and that he would prosper Him and make Him Great and Powerful and that he would also make Him Favourable and Kind to their Nation observing to do thus from that Passage in Jerem. cap. 29.

ver 7. Et quaerite pacem Civitatis c. And seek the peace of the City whither I have caused you to be carryed away Captives and pray unto the Lord for it for in the peace thereof shall ye have peace After this they say another Prayer called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Musaph Additamentum an Additional Prayer wherein is read the sacrifice that was wont to be offered in the Temple and thus is their Morning Prayer ended 20. They have their Sermons also or Preaching which is performed either in the the Morning or in the Afternoon in the School or some other place designed for that purpose wherein they treat of Good Manners and reprove Vices fitting their Discourse to the Ordinarie Lesson for the day that was taken out of the Pentateuch and citing many Sentences out of the Rabbines as hath been formerly declared Par. 2. cap. 1. 21. In the Evening they repair to the School again where after the Ordinarie Prayers are said there is added a Commemoration of the Sabbath and the Beginning of the Lesson for the Week following is read out of the Pentateuch by three persons 22. They use to make three Meals that is to say they sit down to meat three times during the time that the Sabbath lasteth namely once on Friday night and twice the day following doing this in Honour of the Feast And the Table-cloth continues laid all the day long 23. In the Evening when the time is come that they can now see three stars of the middle Magnitude they account the Sabbath to be at an end and it is now lawfull to do any manner of work so soon as ever the Evening Prayer is begun to which they make the lesse haste that they may not seem to Anticipate or end the Sabbath before the due time 24. They adde to the Ordinarie Evening Prayers a certain Commemoration or Acknowledgment of the Sabbaths being a day distinguished and set apart from the Week-daies saying also the 91. Psalm Qui habitat in Adjutorio Altissimi c. He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty c. and many other Verses out of the Scripture treating of Blessings and Prosperitie and the like 25. Then returning each man to his own home they light a Torch or Lamp with two wicks in it at least and taking a Bowl of Wine in one hand and sweet spices in the other they say certain verses out of the Prophets touching Prosperitie and Blessings and also out of the 116. Psalm Calicem salutis accipiam c. I will take the Cup of Salvation and call upon the name of the Lord and likewise out of Esther cap. 8. ver 16. Judaeis autem nova lux c. The Jewes had Light and gladness and joy and honour and the like praying withall that the week following may be prosperous unto them After this they blesse the wine and the sweet spices withall smelling to them that so they may seem to begin the week with delight and pleasure then do they also blesse the Light of the Fire which as yet hath not been made any use of withall looking upon their own heads because now they may fall to their work again And all these things are with them of very mysterious signification Now the meaning of all this is to signifie that the Sabbath is now ended and that that Instant of time divides it from the Working-daies and having so said it is quite finished Now all this Ceremonie is for the same Reason called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Habdalah which is as much as to say Distinction which being now ended they cast a little of the wine upon the ground in token of joy and gladnesse and some use to sing certain songs and verses Ominating Prosperitie and good Fortune the week following And from henceforth it is lawfull for them to do any work 26. When they salute one another that night they do not say God give you a good Night but God send you a good week CHAP. II. Of the Beginning of their Moneths and of their Order and Names and of the Thirteenth Moneth THe Jewes reckon their Moneths according to the Revolution of the Moon so that every Moneth contains 29 daies and the third part of a day and every New-Moon is the Beginning of a moneth 2. Heretofore in Ancient times they were used to send forth two out of the Sanhedrim that is to say the Judges of Jerusalem to be Witnesses of the New Moon 's Appearance which as soon as they had discovered they presently returned and gave notice thereof to the rest of the Judges who immediatly appointed and published that day to be Caput Mensis the Head or Beginning of the Moneth and in this manner did they Order the businesse for the finding out the Times that all their Feastivals were to be kept at But now since the destruction of the Temple it is done by Computation and there is Yearly a Kalendar or Monethly Almanack made and Printed by which they may find out the Age of the Moon together with the time of its Change and the four Quarters with all the Feastival daies throughout the Yeer and all other the like things And they Now set down in their Kalendars the Feastival daies of the Christians also for the better Ordering of their businesse and Affairs wherein they have to deal with Them 3. Their Caput Mensis which sometimes is two daies together that is to say the End of One Moneth and the Begining of the Next is a Feastival Time with them as it is commanded Num. 10. ver 10. Also in the day of your gladnesse and in your solemn daies and in the Beginnings of your Moneths ye shall blow with the Trumpets over your Burnt-Offerings c. and also because there was then a New Sacrifice to be Offered as is enjoyned in the 28. Chap. ver 11. And in the beginnings of your Moneths ye shall offer a Burnt-Offering unto the Lord Two Young Bullocks and One Ram c. But yet it is Lawful on these Daies to do any manner of Work or Businesse Onely the Women use to abstain from working on these daies The Solemnitie of these Feasts is shewed chiefly in Feeding more Plentifully and being more Frolick at their Meat 4. At the time of Prayers there is notice given to all that That day is the Beginning of the Moneth and so they say certain Psalmes from the 113. unto the 118. Then do they take Out the Book of the Law and the Lesson is read by Four persons After this they adde the Musaph wherein they make mention of the Sacrifice that was wont to be offered upon that day 5. The next Sabbath Eve after the Change of the Moon or else the next Evening after the New Moon hath first appeared they all meet together and say a Laudatorie Prayer to God who hath created the Planers and that reneweth the Light of the Moon