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A26373	The present state of the Jews (more particularly relating to those in Barbary) wherein is contained an exact account of their customs, secular and religious : to which is annexed a summary discourse of the Misna, Talmud, and Gemara / by L. Addison ...	Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.	1675 (1675)	Wing A526; ESTC R421	113,028	274

For they are so generally fruitful that she who proves otherwise is said to have no Mazal in the Firmament or to have been married under no good Planet And as the Jewish Women in this Country are fruitful in Children so they are laudably decent in their Travails observing therein such orderly deportment as is agreeable to all well civilized humanity 'T is true the Rabbins who too much play the Poets with all their Rites have not forborn even those of Child-birth but have devised several fabulous Stories and impertinent Rites concerning it A taste whereof we shall here insert for the satisfaction of the Inquisitive And in the first place the Rabbins have appointed that the Father of the Family or any other religious Jew in his stead upon the approach of Child-birth shall draw several Circles in the Chamber of the impregnate as also upon the doors both within and without on the walls and about the bed Inscribing every Circle with these words Adam Chava chutz Lilis that is Adam Eve be gon Lilis The meaning of which Conjuration depends upon the right understanding of what is meant by Lilis Now the Jews are not unanimous in their account hereof yet the best we could collect take as foloweth When God had made Adam and saw that it was not good for him to be alone he created a Woman and gave him her for a Wife and she was called Lilis But being no sooner brought unto Adam than she began to brawle and contend and would not acknowledge that power over her wherewith Adam was invested And when he advised her of her subjection and that she ought to obey his commands she insultingly replyed That subjection arose from inequality and therefore could have no place between them who were equal by Creation And in this pelting and quarrelsom humour they lived so long that Lilis foreseeing little likelyhood either of its ending or amendment she named The most Holy Name and thereupon was immediately rapt out of Adam's sight into the Air. Adam seeing this suddain departure of his Wife is said thus to have addressed himself unto God O King of the World the Wife which thou gavest me has forsaken me Hereupon three Angels Senoi Sanfenoi and Saumangeloph were commanded to pursue and bring her back and to threaten her with severe punishments in case she refused The Angels pursuing overtook her at the Sea wherein afterwards the Egyptians were drowned which then was stormy and tempestuous But Lilis refused to return and pleaded that she was not made to be subject to any Man but that the design of her Creation was to molest and destroy the Male-Children for eight daies and the Female for twenty after their Birth But the Angels not approving her reasoning they endeavoured to force her to return but perceiving in her a shreud resistance they agreed to dismiss her upon this Condition That she should never hurt any Infants wherever she saw their Names written And to this end the Jews use to write the Angels Names in a Table or Parchment and to hang them for Amulets about their Childrens Necks As to the inscribing of the foremention'd Circles with Adam Eve chutz Lilis they imply that if the Mother bring forth a boy God would not give him such a brawling Wife as Lilis but one like Eve who would be mild and peaceable loving and obsequious and such an one as may build his house in Peace But enough of this story But the chief intent of these Circles is to fortifie the Chamber appointed for the Teeming woman against all Haggs and Goblins When the great Belly finds her pangs to be near she calls some discreet Matron to assist her delivery but she must be one of their own Religion For nothing but insuperable necessity can induce them to admit either Christian or Moorish Women to be at their Travails out of a jealousie that some mischief may befal the Child Nor is this the fancy only of the suspicious Mother but a strict prescription of their Masters who in no case but that wherein necessity gives a Dispensation will give leave that a strange Woman should be Midwife to a daughter of Israel When the Woman is brought to Bed the joy and festivity is according to the sex that is born At the birth of a daughter they use but little exultation because she cannot support the family which is extinct without Males Whence they have a saying The Family of the Mother is not called a Family And the Hebrew word for Woman is fetcht from a root signifying forgetfulness because the Fathers Family is forgotten in marriage of a daughter But if the Woman be delivered of a Boy there is great joy in the Family and the Father in testimony thereof presently begins the Feast for his Sons Circumcision which is never deferr'd beyond the eighth day unless want of health in the Child prevent it The first seven daies after the Childs Nativity are wholly spent in festival Entertainments at which none can be a Guest who has not past his thirteenth year Neither must there be fewer than ten at this Feast Upon the Eve of the Circumcision the Women visit their Gossip with whom they usually pass the whole night in mirth and freedom On purpose to console and recreate the Mother that she may not be over-troubled for the pains of her Sons Circumcision as also to prevent those mischiefs to which they imagine Childbed-women are very liable the seventh night after their Delivery CHAP. VII Of the Rites of Circumcision and Purification CIrcumcision has so peculiar a veneration among the present Jews that if all other parts of their Religion were to be changed this like Mount Sion would stand immoveable And though many other Nations of old and at this day the whole profession of Mahumedism use Circumcision yet none but the Hebrews embrace it as a Sacrament Concerning the figurative Circumcision of the Heart Lips and Ears whereof the Scripture makes mention there is no considerable disagreement among Christians or Jews nor is their harmony less about the literal Circumcision for both grant it to be of Divine Institution and appointed both for a signe and seal of the Covenant God made with the Jews as St. Paul Rom. 4.11 interprets Moses Gen. 17.11 But the discoursing of this point belongs not to this place whereby the Method we have proposed in this Treatise the modern Rites of Circumcision are plainly to be recounted And in the first place the Jews of whom I now write are very conformable in their observation of the time appointed for the celebration of Circumcision For where they enjoy the free exercise of their Religion they never defer it longer than the eighth day But they Circumcise indifferently at home or the Synagogue Though for the greater parade the wealthier Jews seldom neglect to carry their children to the Synagogue The chief Officer at Circumcision is the Mohel or he that Circumciseth who is not bound to be of the

that God would be mindful of it in the day of the Resurrection and to give it life among those who are Circumcised Now they Circumcise the child to make it capable of Jewish Sepulchre and to prevent all mischief that might otherwise befal the uncircumcised in the future State For they are not yet argeed whether or no Circumcision be of absolute necessity to the life to come Those who adhere to the very letter of its Institution make Circumcision so requisite to the obtaining of future happiness that they deny those who want it any portion in the Resurrection misunderstanding Ezek. 28.10 But others think there is nothing dangerous in the want thereof but its contempt And in the Christian Church the Council of Braccara ordain'd that those who despised their Baptism and died in that opinion should as guilty of their own eternal death be buried with Self-Murtherers But all we have hitherto mentioned concerning Circumcision is to be restrained to those who are born in the Jews Religion For as to the admission of Proselytes unto Judaism Circumcision Baptism and Sacrafice were in ordinary course required But these old Articles of Proselytism are not exacted by the mordern Jews For Sacrifice has been utterly out of use ever since the Destruction of the Temple And lest the shame or pain of Circumcision might deter any from proselytizing they are taught not rigorously to exact it And there Moses Egyptius tells them that many Proselytes were admitted into the Jewish Communion without Circumcision Moses's Father in Law they hold to have been the first Proselyte of Justice who upon his turning Jew had his Name Jether changed to Jethro But after him there were many made Proselytes of the Gate without Circumcision of which Mr. Selden gives several instances But however they dispense with Sacrifice and speak warily of Circumcision yet Baptism is a constant initiatory of the Proselyte which has nothing common but the water with those dayly Baptisms of the Jews reflected upon by Tertullian lib. 6. de Baptismo cap. 15. I confess Barbary affords but few of these Proselytes for though there are frequent examples both of Jews and Christians turning Moors yet very seldom are any met with who turn Jews which made me less inquisitive after the present manner of receiving Proselytes And as to what relates to the antient Form of Proselytism enough is to be seen in Mr. Selden lib. 2. cap. 2 3 4 c. de jure Naturali Gentium juxta Disciplinam Hebraeorum If any Proselytes happen among them we may presume they conform to the Rites herein used by the Jews of other Nations Of which we have this summary Account in Leo. Modena a Venetian Rabbi Historia de gli riti Hebraici Part 5. lib. 2. Si alcune volesse farsi Hebraeo primo sono tenuti tre Rabbini o persone di Autoritá interrogarto settilmente che cosa lo move a far questa Rissotione c. that is If there be any that hath a mind to turn Jew there are three Masters or persons of Authority appointed warily to examine him what cause moved him to this resolution and whether any worldly interest had a hand therein to the end they may admit him as they ought Next they denounce and make known unto him the great strictness of the Law of Moses and that the Jews are at present an abject vile and despicable people and that upon this account it is better for him to continue as he is And if after all this he continues his purpose then he is to Circumcise himself and as soon as he is whole he bathes himself all over in water in the presence of the three foresaid Masters and after this he is accounted as good an Hebrew as the rest At the Circumcision of the Proselyte they use this Form of Prayer Blessed be thou O God and King of the World who hast sanctified us with thy Precepts and commanded us to Circumcise Proselytes and to take from them the Blood of the Covenant Because according to thy Prophet Jer. 33.25 unless by the Blood of the Covenant neither Heaven nor Earth should remain Then the by-standers say As thou hast brought him into thy Covenant so guide us in thy Law and good Works and bless us with protection and safety Now because some other Nations have gotten a Traditionary Custom of Circumcising without turning Jews or undertaking any degree of Proselytism as all the Mahumedans It is therefore resolved among the Jews that if any such become a Proselyte though he cannot be Circumcised again yet on the eighth of his Proselytism some blood must be fetcht of that part which they call the Breaking of the Skin But they are so ingenuous as to confess that this is none of the Laws of Moses but an Institution of their own And having thus briefly viewed the Ritual of Circumcision that which remains of this Chapter shall be filled up with this short Account of their Purification after Child-birth And the Law of this Ceremony is Levit. 12. from which they in no wise decline unless in the number of dayes for notwithstanding that but sixty six dayes are appointed by the Law for the Purification after the birth of a Daughter yet in Barbary the Jews observe seventy six but for a Son they keep close to what the Law has herein appointed During the time appointed for Purification the Child-bed woman abstains from all intimate communion with her Husband who is not permitted so much as to touch her finger or clothes or to eat and drink with her out of the same dish or cup. And at the end of these dayes allotted to her Purification she returns not to the free conversation of her Husband till she has been wholly washt and put on all such accoutrements as are used in token of purity And that there might be no collusion herein she must prove by the Testimony of two credible Matrons that all things concerning her Purification were duly observed In the Bibliotheca Rabbinica there is Mentioned the Sepher Naschim where the whole Ceremony of Purification is set down The reasons why a different number of dayes are observed herein for a Boy and a Girl are to be seen in Estius's Notes upon Levit. 12. whither I refer the Reader CHAP. VIII Of the Jews Polygamy Divorce A Copy of their Bill of Dismission c. POlygamy respects both Sexes and is of two sorts whereof the one is a having of many Wives or Husbands at once the other an having many successively Concerning which the Jews at no time have raised any considerable controversie saving that they have always refused the woman to have a plurality of husbands at once Though they denyed her not a liberty of a second Marriage when by Death or Divorce they were freed from the first Among Christian Authors this Point has been deeply controverted and Tertullian was equally against both these sorts of Polygamy putting but little difference between having many