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B04456	Vindiciæ Judæorum, or A letter in answer to certain questions propounded by a noble and learned gentleman, touching the reproaches cast on the nation of the Jevves; wherein all objections are candidly, and yet fully cleared. By Rabbi Menasseh Ben Israel a divine and a physician.	Manasseh ben Israel, 1604-1657.	1656 (1656)	Wing M381; Thomason E.880[1]; Interim Tract Supplement Guide 482.b.3[7]	31,719	45

any good man believe that against his holy law a Iew in a strange countrey especially should make himself guilty of so execrable a fact 4. Admit that it were lawfull which God forbid why should they eat the bloud And supposing they should eat the bloud why should they eat it on the Passeover Here at this feast every confection ought to be so pure as not to admit of any leaven or any thing that may fermentate which certainly bloud doth 5. If the Iewes did repute and hold this action which is never to be named without an epethite of horrour necessary they would not expose themselves to so eminent a danger to so cruell and more deserved punishment unlesse they were moved to it by some divine precept or at least some constitution of their wise men Now we challenge all those men who entertain this dreadfull opinion of us as obliged in point of justice to cite the place of Scripture or of the Rabbins where any such precept or doctrine is delivered And untill they do so we will assume so much liberty as to conclude it to be no better then a malicious slander 6. If a man to save his life may break the Sabbath and transgresse many of the other commands of the law as hath been determined in the Talmud as also confirmed by R. Moses of Egypt in the fifth Chapter of his treatise of the fundamentalls of the law yet three are excepted which are idolatry murther and adultery life not being to be purchased at so dear a rate as the committing of these heinous sins an innocent death being infinitely to be preserred before it Wherefore if the killing of a Christian as they object were a divine precept and institution which far be it from me to conceive it were certainly to be null'd and rendred void since a man cannot perform it without indangering his own life and not onely so but the life of the whole congregation of an entire people and yet more since it is directly a violation of one of these thtee precepts Thou shalt do no murder● which is intended universally of all men as we have said before 7. The Lord blessed forever by his prophet Ieremiah Chap. 29.7 gives it in command to the captive Israelites that were dispersed among the heathens that they should continually pray for and endeavour the peace welfare and prosperity of the city wherein they dwelt and the inhabitants thereof This the Iewes have alwayes done and continue to this day in all their Synagogues with a particular blessing of the Prince or Magistrate under whose protection they live And this the Right Honourable my Lord St. Iohn can testifie who when he was Embassadour to the Lords the States of the united Provinces was pleased to honour our Synagogue at Amsterdam with his presence where our nation entertained him with musick and all expressions of joy and gladnesse and also pronounced a blessing not onely upon his honour then present but upon the whole Common-wealth of England for that they were a people in league and amity and because we conceived some hopes that they would manifest towards us what we ever bare towards them viz. all love and affection But to return again to our argument if we are bound to study endeavour and sollicite the good and flourishing estate of the city where we live and the inhabitants thereof how shall we then murder their children who are the greatest good and the most flourishing blessing that this life doth indulge to them 8. The children of Israel are naturally mercifull and full of compassion This was acknowledged by their enemies Kings 1.20 31. when Benhadad King of Assyria was discomfited in the battel and fled away he became a petitioner for his life to King Ahab who had conquered him for he understood that the Kings of the house of Israel were mercifull Kings and his own experience confirmed it when for a little affection that he pretended in a complement he obtained again his life and fortunes from which ●he event of the warre had disentitled him And when the Gibeonites made that cruell request to David that seven of Sauls sons who were innocent should be delivered unto them the pro●het saies now the Gibeonites were not of the children of Israel Sam. ● 21 2. as if he had said in this cruelty the piety of the Isra●lites is not so much set forth as the tyranny and implacable rage ●f the Gentiles the Gibeonites Which being so and experience withall declares it viz. the fidelity which our nation hath inviolably preserved towards their superiours then most certainly i● is wholly incompatible and inconsistent with the murdering o● their children 9. There are some Christians that use to insult against the Iewes as Christian homicides that will venter to give a reason of thes● pretended murtherous practises As if the accusation were the● most infallibly true if they can find any semblance of a reason why it might be so As they say that this is practised by them in hatred and detestation of Jesus of Nazareth And that therefore they steal Christian Children buffeting them in the same manne● that he was buffetted thereby to rub up and revive the memory of the aforesaid death And likewise they imagine that the Iewes secretly steal away crosses crucifixes and such like graven images which Papists privately and carefully retein in their houses and every day the Iewes mainly strike and buffet shamefully spitting on them with such like ceremonies of despight and al● this in hatred of Jesus But I admire what they really think when they object such things as these laying them to our charge Fo● surely we cannot believe that a people otherwise of sufficient prudence and judgement can perswade themselves into an opinion that the Iewes should commit such practises unlesse they could conceive they did them in honour and obedience to the God whom they worship And what kind of obedience is this they perform to God blessed for ever when they directly sin against that speciall command Thou shalt not kill Besides this cannot be committed without the imminent and manifest perill o● their lives and fortunes and the necessary exposing themselves to a just revenge Moreover it is an Anathema to a Iew to have any graven images in his house or any thing of an idol which any o● the nations figuratively worship Deut. 7.26 10. Matthew Paris p. 532. writes how that in the year 1240 the Iewes circumcised a Christian child at Norwich and gave him the name Iurnin and reserved him to be crucified for which cause many of them were most cruelly put to death The truth of thi● story will evidently appear upon the consideration of its citcumstances He was first circumcised and this perfectly constitute● him a Iew. Now for a Iew to embrace a Christian in his armes and foster him in his bosome is a testimony of great love and affection But if it was intended that shortly after this child should be crucified to

great probability of obtaining what I now request whilst they affirmed that at this time the minds of men stood very well affected towards us and that our entrance into this Island would be very acceptable and well-pleasing unto them And from this beginning sprang up in me a semblable affection and desire of obtaining this purpose For for seven yeares on this behalf I have endeavoured and sollicited it by letters and other means without any intervall For I conceived that our universall dispersion was a necessary circumstance to be fulfilled before all that shall be accomplished which the Lord hath promised to the people of the Iewes concerning their restauration and their returning again into their own land according to those words Dan. 12.7 When he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people all these things shall be finished As also that this our scattering by little and little should be amongst all people from the one end of the earth even unto the other as it is written Deut. 28.64 I conceived that by the end of the earth might be understood this Island And I knew not but that the Lord who often works by naturall meanes might have design'd and made choice of me for the brsnging about this work With these proposalls therefore I applyed my self in all zealous affection to the English Nation congratulating their glorious liberty which at this day they enjoy together with their prosperous peace And I entituled my book named The hope of Israel to the first Parliament and the Council of State And withall declared my intentions In order to which they sent me a very favourable passe-port Afterwards I directed my self to the second and they also sent me another But at that juncture of time my coming was not presently performed for that my kindred and friends considering the checquered and interwoven vicissitudes and turns of things here below embracing me with pressing importunity earnestly requested me not to part from them and would not give over till their love constrained me to promise that I would yet a while stay with them But notwithstanding all this I could not be at quiet in my mind I know not but that it might be through some particular divine providence till I had anew made my humble addresses to his Highnesse the Lord Protector whom God preserve And finding that my coming over would not be altogether unwelcome to him with those great hopes which I conceived I joyfully took my leave of my house my friends my kindred all my advantages there and the country wherein I have lived all my life time under the benign protection and favour of the Lords the States Generall and Magistrates of Amsterdam in fine I say I parted with them all and took my voyage for England Where after my arrivall being very courteously received and treated with much respect I presented to his most Serene Highnesse a petition and some desires which for the most part were written to me by my brethren the Iewes from severall parts of Europe as your worship may better understand by former relations Whereupon it pleased his Highnesse to convene an Assembly at White hall of Divines Lawyers and Merchants of different perswasions and opinions Whereby mens judgements and sentences were different Insomuch that as yet we have had no finall determination from his most Serene Highnesse Wherefore those few Iewes that were here despairing of our expected successe departed hence And others who desired to come hither have quitted their hopes and betaken themselves some to Italy some to Geneva where that Commonwealth hath at this time most freely granted them many and great priviledges Now O most high God to thee I make my prayer even to thee the God of our Fathers Thou who hast been pleased to stile thy self the keeper of Israel Thou who hast graciously promised by thy holy Prophet Ieremiah cap. 31. that thou wilt not cast off all the seed of Israel for all the evill that they have done thou who by so many stupendious miracles didst bring thy people out of Egypt the land of bondage and didst lead them into the holy land graciously cause thy holy influence to descend down into the mind of the Prince who for no private interest or respect at all but onely out of commiseration to our affliction hath inclined himself to protect and shelter us for which extraordinary humanity neither I my self nor my nation can ever expect to be able to render him answerable and sufficient thanks and also into the minds of his most illustrious and prudent Council that they may determine that which according to thine infinite wisdome may be best and most expedient for us For men O Lord see that which is present but thou in thy omnisciencie seest that which is afarre off And to the highly honoured nation of England I make my most humble request that they would read over my arguments impartially without prejudice and devoid of all passion effectually recommending me to their grace and favour and earnestly beseeching God that he would be pleased to hasten the time promised by Zephaniah wherein we shall all serve him with one consent after the same manner and shall be all of the same judgement that as his name is one so his fear may be also one and that we may all see the goodnesse of the Lord blessed forever and the consolations of Zion Amen and Amen From my study in London April the 10. in the year from the creation 5416. and in the year according to the vulgar account 1656. As to give satisfaction to your worship being desirous to know what books have been written and printed by me or else are almost ready for the presse may you please to take the names of them in this Catalogue A Catalogue of such books as have been published by Menasseh Ben Israel in Hebrew NIsmachaim four Books concerning the Immortality of the soul wherein many notable and pleasant Questions are discussed and handled as may be seen by the Arguments of the particular Chapters prefixed to the book in Latine dedidicated to the then Emperour Ferdinand the third Pene Rabba upon Rabot of the Ancient Rabbins in Latine and Spanish Conciliatoris pars prima in Pentateuchum De Resurrectione mortuorum libri tres Problemata de creatione De termino vitae De fragilitate humana ex-lapsu Adami deque divino in bon● opere auxilio Spes Israelis This is also in English Orationes panegyricae quarum una ad Illustrissimum principem Aurantium altera ad serenissimam reginam Sueciorum in Spanish onely Conciliator the second part upon the first Prophets the third part upon the later Prophets the fourth part upon the Hagiographa Humas or the Pentateuch with the severall precepts in the margin Thesoro de los dirim five books of the rites and ceremonies of the Iewes in two Volumes Humas the Pentateuch with a commentarie Piedra pretiosa of Nebuchadnezzar's image or the fifth Monarchy Laus or ationes del anno the Iewes prayers for the whole year translated out of the originall Books ready for the Presse De cultu Imaginum contra Pontificios Latine Sermois Sermons in the Portugal tongue Loci communes Omnium Midrasim which contains the divinity of the ancient Rabbins in Hebrew Bibliotheca Rabbinica together with the arguments of their books and my judgement upon their severall editions Phocylides in Spanish verse cum Notis Hippocratis Aphorismi in Hebrew Flavius Iosephus adversus Apionem in Hebrew ejusdem Monarchia rationis in Hebrew Refutatio libri cui titulus Praeadamitae Historia sive continuatio Flavii Josephi ad haec usque tempora De divinitate legis Mosaicae De scientia Talmudistarum in singulis facultatibus Philosophia Rabbinica De disciplinis Rabbinorum Nomenclator Hebraius Arabicus I have also published and printed with my own presse above 60 other books amongst which are many bibles in Hebrew and Spanish with all our Hebrew prayers corrected and disposed in good order FINIS