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Rh just described, But the Kabbalists, medieval and modern, were meritorious writers in one field of literature. The Kabbalists and the Chassidim were the authors of some of the most exquisite prayers and meditations which the soul of the Jew has poured forth since the Psalms were completed. This redeems the later Kabbalistic literature from the altogether unfavorable verdict which would otherwise have to be passed on it.

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 * Graetz.—III, p. 347 [565]

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 * Graetz.—IV, 1.

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 * A. Neubauer.—Bahir and Zohar, J. Q. R., IV, p. 357.
 * Steinschneider.—Jewish Literature, p. 104.

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 * Graetz.—IV, p. 618 [657].

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 * Graetz.—V, p. 118 [125].

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 * Graetz.—V, 9.
 * Schechter.—Studies in Judaism, p. 1.