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*Midrash, continued.
 * beast fables in, 64-67.
 * and the Piyut, 86, 88-89.
 * used by Rashi, 123, 124.
 * Midrash Maggadol, a Midrashic work, 58.
 * Midrash Rabbah, a Midrashic work, 58.
 * Mikdash Meät, by Moses Rieti, 186.
 * Minhag, established by the Gaonim, 69.
 * Miphaloth Elohim, by Abarbanel, 229.
 * Mishnah, a paragraph of the Mishnah, 31.
 * Mishnah, the, origin of, 22.
 * principle of, 24.
 * compiled by Rabbi, 28.
 * contents and style of, 29-31.
 * divisions of, 31.
 * development of, 43. See Talmud, the.
 * date of, 52.
 * Sherira, on, 70.
 * Maimon's commentary on, 135.
 * commentary on, 206.
 * personified, 239.
 * Mishneh Torah. See "Strong Hand, The,"
 * Moed, order of the Mishnah, 31.
 * Mohammedanism assumed by the Maimon family, 135.
 * Moreh Nebuchim, See "Guide of the Perplexed, The."
 * Moses, teachings of, summarized, 140.
 * Moses of Leon, author of the Zohar, 172, 173.
 * Moses, the son of Chanoch, founds a school at Cordova, 97.
 * Meses, the son of Maimon. See Maimonides, Moses.
 * Moses Ibn Ezra, and the Scriptures, 107, 109.
 * life of, 112-113.
 * quotation from, 113-114.
 * hymns of, 114.
 * Charizi on, 114.
 * Moses Ibn Tibbon, translator, 148.
 * Moses Alshech, homiletical writer, 230.
 * Moses Kimchi, grammarian, 117.
 * Moses Minz, author of "Responses," 237.
 * Moses Rieti, poet, 186-187.
 * Mysticism, an element of religion, 169-170.
 * in Judaism, 170.


 * Nachmanides, Moses, Talmudist, 160-168.
 * on the French Rabbis, 160, 162.
 * as a poet, 162.
 * gentleness of, 163.
 * in a disputation, 163-164.
 * in Palestine, 165.
 * as an exegete, 165-168.
 * teacher of, 171.
 * will of, 195.
 * Nahar, poet, 109.
 * "Name of the Great Ones, The," by Chayim Azulai, 220.
 * Naples, Abarbanel in, 226.
 * Nashim, order of the Mishnah, 31.
 * "Nathan the Wise," by Lessing, 256.
 * Nathan, the son of Yechiel, lexicographer, 121.
 * Nehardea, centre of Jewish learning, 44.
 * Nehemiah Chayun, Kabbalist, 176.
 * New-Hebrew as a literary language, 83.
 * New-Hebrew poetry, and the Scriptures, 107.
 * characteristics of, 108-109.
 * after Jehuda Halevi, 130-131, 132.
 * See also Piyut.
 * Nezikin, order of the Mishnah, 31.
 * Nicholas, monk, translator, 150.
 * "Novelties," Notes on the Talmud, 234.
 * Numco, character in Samuel Usque's poem, 218.


 * Obadiah of Bertinoro, Rabbi of Jerusalem, 206.
 * Omar, forbids Jews to enter Jerusalem, 205.
 * Onkelos, See Aquila.
 * Orach Chayim, part of the Shulchan Aruch, 239, 240.