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168 peace to the minds of students (laboring under persecution and trouble), when they read the portion of the Pentateuch on Sabbaths and festivals, and to attract their hearts by simple explanations and sweet words.” His own enthusiastic and loving temperament speaks in this part of his commentary. It is true, as Graetz says, that Nachmanides exercised more influence on his contemporaries and on succeeding ages by his personality than by his writings. But it must be added that the writings of Nachmanides are his personality.


 * I. H. Weiss, Study of the Talmud in the Thirteenth Century, J. Q. R., I. p. 289.
 * S. Schechter.—Studies in Judaism, p. 99 [120].
 * Graetz.—III, 17; also III, p. 598 [617].


 * Graetz.—III, p. 375 [385].


 * Graetz.—III, p. 344 [351], 403 [415].