iii. 27.

239 Num. xxix. 7.

240 Num. xxix. 7.

241 Urim and Thummin (lights and perfections), the Jews think, gave
answer by the divine illumination of the suitable letters composing
the names of the tribes which were graven on the breastplate of the
High Priest.

242 Sandals were, however, allowed where there was fear of serpents and
scorpions. Woollen socks might be used.

_ 243 I.e._, God omnipresent. The Jews in a spirit of reverence use the
words "Place" and the "Name" to denote God. In reading they do not
now pronounce the word Jehovah, but substitute Adonai for it; and
when Jehovah is followed by the word Adonai they then use the word
Elohim. The true pronunciation of the Name has been a subject of
much contention. It has been variously given, as Yeheveh, Yehveh,
Yahveh, Yahavah, Yahaveh, and Yehovah. When it was uttered on the
Day of Atonement the worshippers "fell on their faces" in reverence
for it (vi. 2). It was spoken for the last time in the Temple by the
mouth of Simon the Just. Henceforward, the Gemara says whoever
attempts to pronounce it shall have no part in the world to come.

244 According to Maimonides, we have in this treatise proof that it is
coeval with the laws of Moses on the same subject.

245 The cloth would change it into a tent.

246 But he may go up on the middle days of the feast.

247 Lest he should render the food legally unclean with his unwashed
hands. Mark vii. 2, 5.

248 Eccles. i. 15.

249 He lived about eighty years before the destruction of the Temple.

250 Deut. xiii. 13.

251 Supposed to be the mountain east of the Dead Sea, above Callirrhoe.

252 Lev. xix. 23.

253 Num. xviii. 11, 12.

254 Ps. cxviii. 1.

255 Ps. cxviii. 25.

256 Ps. cxviii. 25.

257 Ps. cxiii. to cxviii. inclusive.

258 These not being legally bound to this duty cannot act as deputies
for another.

259 His ignorance of reading.

260 "I will praise thee," etc.--Ps. cxviii. 21 to end.

261 Lev. xxiii. 10, 11.

262 Permission arising out of his intention to fulfil the law.

263 Means a place exempt from taxation called Colonin, perhaps the
modern Colonia. Some, however, say it was a place in the Kedron
Valley.

264 Deut. xxxii. 39.

265 The seventh day on which they used the willows.

266 A log is about hal