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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

flesh or to pull their hair off in their mourning or lamenting for the Dead as well while the Corps is present as after it is buried observing the Text of Scripture Deut. cap. 14. ver 2. Ye shall not cut your selves nor make any baldnesse between your eyes for the Dead 6. As they return from the Grave every one of them plucks up grasse from off the ground twice or thrice and casts it over his head behind him saying withall those words of the Psalmist Psal 92. ver 16. Et Florebunt de civitate sicut foenum terrae c. And they of the city shall flourish like grasse of the earth and this they do to signifie their hopes of the Resurrection of the Dead After this they wash their hands and sit down and rise up from their places again nine times saying withall the 91. Psal 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 And having done all this they return home to their houses And this is the most usuall manner of Burying the Dead in most places although there may be here and there some little diversity found as the Customes of the several countries and places are CHAP. IX Of their Mourning Praying for and Commemorating of the Dead THe nearest Kindred of the Party deceased that is to say the Father Mother Sons Husband Wife Brothers and Sisters when they are returned to their house sit down all together upon the ground without shoes upon their feet any then is there sent them in from their Friends Wine and Bread and Hard Eggs and so they eat and drink according to that which is written Prov. cap. 31. Date Sichera morientibus c. Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish and wine unto those that be of heavy hearts Let him drink and forget his poverty and remember his misery no more one of them first saying the Ordinary Benediction which is used to be said at meat adding withall certain consolatory speeches and comfortable Sentences In the Eastern parts and many other places their kindred and friends use to send in to the Mourners every Evenin and Morning during the whole seven daies of Mourning Dishes of Meat and good chear and go in and feast with them and comfort them up 2. The Bed whereon the sick person died as soon as ever he is carried out of the house they take and rowl up together doubling up the coverlet also and laying it all in a heap together upon the same Bedstead and close by the Beds head they set up a Lamp of Oyl which is to burn continually during the whole seven daies following They also set a Bason of Water and a clean Towel near the Bed's head 3. Those that are nearest of Kin to the deceased as hath formerly been said are to continue in the house seven daies together sitting upon the ground all the day long and eating their meat in the same posture Onely upon the Sabbath they go to the School being accompanied by other of their friends upon which day also they are more visited and comforted by them then upon any other During the time of these seven daies of Mourning they may not do any manner of work or businesse neither may the husband lie with his wife And every Evening and Morning during the said seven daies there are to meet Ten persons together at the house of Mourning to say the usual Prayers by the Mourners who are not during this time to go out of the house save only on the Sabbath and some use to adde after the ordinary Prayers the 49. Psalm Audite haec omnes gentes c. Hear this all ye people give ear all ye inhabitanns of the world c. and they also pray for the Soul of the party deceased 4. All Mourners apparel themselves in black but they do this following the use of the Countries where they inhabit and not from any Precept 5. When the seven daies of Mourning are now ended they go abroad and many use to set up Lights in the School and have Speeches made and promise to give Alms for the Soul of their Dead Friend And this they also do at the Moneth's and at the years end and if he were a Rabbine that is dead or a person of quality they then have Sermons and Funeral Orations which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesped made for him 6. They have a Custome that the Son useth alwaies to say in the School for his Father and Mother that Prayer which they call the Cadisch every Evening and Morning for the space of eleven Moneths together and this he does for the Soul of his Deceased Father or Mother And some use to Fast every Year upon that day that their Father or Mother died 7. In many places they lay a Marble stone upon their graves writing Epitaphs upon them of divers kinds some in Prose and some in Verse expressing the name of the person that lies buried there and recounting withall his Praises together with the Day Moneth and Year of his Decease CHAP. X. Of their Paradice Hell and Purgatory THere are some that have written that for the space of Three daies together after a Dead body is buried it is tormented by a certain Angel or Spirit the Soul returning again to the body that so it may become sensible of these Torments and this they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chibut hakeber Percussio Sepulchri and this is believed too by the simpler sort of people 2. They hold that there is a place which they call Paradise for the Souls of Good men and this they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gan Heden where the Soules of the Blessed enjoy the Beatifical Vision and also a Hell which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Gehinam for the Wicked where their Soules are Tormented with Fire and other sorts of Punishments But they are of opinion that some are condemned to Perpetual Torments in this place and shall never be released from hence but that some are to continue here only till a certain time prefixed And this is that they call Purgatory being not distinguished in respect of Place but of continuance of Time 3. They believe also that no Jew that is not guilty of Heresie or of some certain other of the like Crimes specified by the Rabbines doth stay in Purgatory above a Twelve-moneth and they conceive that the greatest part of those that die are of this Rank and Number and that there are very few of them that for those aforementioned sins are condemned to everlasting Torments in Hell CHAP. XI Of their Belief of the Transmigration of Soules the Resurrection and day of Judgment THere are many among the Jews that are of that Pythagorical Opinion of the Transmigration of souls and its passing from one Body into Another believing that after a man is departed his soul returns again

Purim Notwithstanding they at this time observe nothing at all that is essentiall to the said Feast neither have these Daies any thing in Common betwixt them save onely the bare Name PART IV. CHAP. I. Of the several Kinds and Degrees of Adulterie and Fornication THe Severall Degrees of Adultery and Fornication are these that follow The First is to Lie with Another Man's Wife or with any Woman that is but onely Betroathed to Another man And This is among the Jews accounted for one of the Greatest and most Hainous Crimes that can be committed The Next to this is to Lie with any of ones Kindred that is to say with any of those specified Levit. cap. 20. and the Children that are begotten by any such Unlawful Copulation are to be esteemed Bastards whom they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mamzer Spurious neither may they acknowledge or make Alliances with them according to that which is written Deuter. 23. ver 2. Non ingredietur Mamzer hoc est Spurium in Ecclesiam Domini c. A Bastard shall not enter into the Congregation of the Lord even unto his tenth generation shall he not enter into the Congregation of the Lord. Next to the aforesaid Degrees of Adulterie followes the Having Carnall Knowledge of a Woman that is not a Jew because they say this was Forbidden by Esdra or to Lie with any Strumpet that is a Jew the Publick Toleration of which kind of People is not in reason to be thought of amongst the Jewes seeing it is against the Expresse Text of the Scripture in the aforesaid Deut. 23. ver 17. Non erit Meretrix de filiabus Israel c. There shall be no Whore of the Daughters of Israel c. 2. It is also a Sin to have to do with any Woman whatsoever although she be free from all the aforesaid Particulars unlesse she be a Man 's own Wife or to deflowr any Virgin unlesse he afterwards marry her because all these things are accounted Fornication 3. They may not lie with any Menstruous Woman as you may find written Levit. cap. 18. ver 19. Ad mulierem quae patitur menstrua non accedes c. Also thou shalt not approach unto a Woman to uncover her Nakednesse as long she is put apart for her Uncleannesse neither may they have knowledge so much as of their own Wives so long as they are in this Condition as we shall shew hereafter CHAP. II. Of their Marriages Every Jew is bound by the Law to Marry and the most Convenient time to do this is determined by the Rabbines to be at Eighteen Years of Age But they must by no means live Unmarried after Twentie and what man soever is not Married after he is of This Age he is accounted as One that lives in Sin The reasons of this are First because all men are bound to Endeavour the Procreation of Children according as God Commanded Adam Gen. cap. 1. ver 28. Crescite Multiplicamini et replete terram c. And God said unto them Be fruitful and Multiply replenish the Earth c. and they conceive themselves not to have fulfilled this Precept here given till they have begotten One Son and One Daughter at least And besides they say they are bound to marrie that by having Wives of their own they may by this means the easier avoid all Occasions of falling into the sins of Adulterie or Fornication which if they should live Unmarried they would be apt to fall into 2. They may marrie as many Wives as they please as we find practised by the Ancient Hebrewes Examples whereof we frequently meet withall in the Scriptures and this Custome is in Use still among the Levantines or Eastern Jewes But the Having of Many Wives is not at all either permitted or practised among the Dutch and among the Italians also it is very Rare and seldome or never used save onely in case that a man hath lived many Years with his Wife and hath not been able to have any Children by Her 3. A man may marrie his Niece that is to say the Daughter of his Brother or Sister and yet a man may not Marry his Aunt to whom he is Nephew In like manner may Cousen-Germans marrie that is to say Brothers and Sister's Children both by Father and Mother All the Other Degrees of Alliances specified Levit cap. 20. are Prohibited from marrying with each other 4. There are many among them that will not Marrie a Woman that hath had Two or More Husbands before calling Her a Husband-killer but however This is not any where Forbidden And the like is to be understood of a man that hath had more then Two Wives 5. A Widow or a Woman that hath been put away by a Former Husband cannot marrie within the space of Ninety daies after the Death of her Husband or of her Divorce to the end that it may be known whether or no she be with Child by her Former Husband and that there may not be any Controversie whose the Child is 6. If a man die and leave behind him a Young Child sucking at the Mothers breast his Widow may not marrie again till the Child be full Two years old And this is so Ordered by the Rabbines that the Infant might be sure not to be neglected till it should come to be of some strength CHAP. III. Of their Contracts and Manner of Marrying THe Manner of their making of Contracts or Espousalls is thus There is a Writing drawn betwixt the Man and the Kindred of the Woman and then doth the Man take the Woman by the Hand and acknowledgeth Her for his Spouse and the business is done as to the Matter of Contract In some places they use at this time to put a Ring upon her finger and so betroath her but in Italy and in Germany they do not use this Ceremony for the most part when they are Contracted onely Afterwards they continue thus Promised some a Year others Two Four Sixe Moneths more or lesse as they please themselves and according as they conceive it to be most Convenient for them during which time the Man hath libertie to visit and to sport and toy with his betroathed Mistresse but he must not know her Carnally 2. When the time of their Marriage approacheth and the Day is now set which useth to be in the Increase of the Moon and for Virgins on Wednesday or Friday and for Widowes on Thursday if the Bride hath passed the time of her Monethly Courses she then goeth to a Bath and washeth her self as we shall shew more fully hereafter Chap. 5. Otherwise she may not lie with her Bridegroom although the Marriage may however be solemnized betwixt them till such time as she shall be in case to go and wash her self 3. It is a Custome with many that the Bridegroom and his Bride should both fast upon their Wedding day till such time as the Ceremonie of the Benediction is finished 4. Upon the