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Zunz( G.V."p.

261) said: "Instead of the brief explanations or allegories of the ancients, instead of their uniform citation of authorities, we have here compilations from halakic and haggadic works in-

termingled with

artificial and often trivial applications of Scripture, and for many pages continuously we find no citation of any source "

whatever Nevermost remarkable indeed was the industry of

theless,

unknown author of this imperfect work—a fragment, no doubt, of his original purpose. The skill the

wonder and appreciation, which enabled

calls for

him

(sections xiii. and xiv. on Num. vii.) to give a different interpretation to each one of the twelve passages enumerating the offerings of princes of the tribes— identical in all but the name of the

prince ("Monatsschrift," xxxv., p. 445). This portion of the Bemidbar Rabbah shows all the marks of the late haggadic age Apthere is much which can be referred proximate to R. Moses ha-Darshan, and which

Date.

reveals

a connection with Midrash Tadshe. The work is, according to Zunz, hardly older than the twelfth century. B RA HT Zun %/• lst ed " PP- 258-262; Weiss, Dor ?! 7i i Dnm?f;, Dor sha y< llL m et a% %t

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The "pizmon" of

the "selihot" on the first Sunday New- Year, and therefore honored with a special melody. The first verse of the in the octave preceding the

Bemidbar Rabbah Ben-Avig-dor

BEN- ABINADAB

Commissariat officer of Sola daughter of his royal master. stationed in the district of Dor; that is the

omon who married

He was

modern Tanturah J

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(I

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R. V.). G. B. L.

BEN ADRET SOLOMON B. ABE. See BEN AMI. See Rabinovicii, M. BEN-AMMI ("son of my people"; "son of

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Son of Lot, and ancestor of the Ammonites

(Gen. xix. 38).

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BEN ASHER.

See

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Aaron ben Moses ben

BEN-AVIGDOR

(pen-name, Abraham Leib Russian Hebrew novelist and publisher born in Zheludok, government of Wilna, in 1867. He received the usual Biblical and Talmudlcal education, and was expected by his parents to become a rabbi but he was attracted by modern

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Hebrew and

Zionism, and engaged in writing and publishing as a vocation. In 1891 he was called to Warsaw to become secretary of a Zionist society. There he began to publish a popular "library," or series of original short stories under the name " Sifre Agurah " (Penny Books), and in the following four years brought out thirty -one numbers. They included six novels and novelettes by himself, the others being by the best-known Hebrew writers of the day, such as Prischman, Perez, Taviov, and Brainin!

Later he was one of the founders, and for three years the manager of the publication which has accomplished much

society Ahiasaf, in spreading

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popularizing the newly revived Hebrew literature. When he left the Ahiasaf company he founded a similar publishing-house, called " Tushiah " (Sound Knowledge), of which he is the editor and, with M. Balascher, manager. It has published various scientific works, both original and translations, and numerous works of fiction, and is one of the most potent agencies for the diffusion of knowledge among the Hebrew reading public.