Mikdash Meaet, 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.

Moses, 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.

Nahum, 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.

Numeo, 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.

“Order of Generations, The,” by Yechiel Heilprin, 220.

“Order of the Tannaim and Amoraim,” 212.

Orders of the Mishnah, 31.

Origen, under Jewish influence, 48.

Pablo Christiani, convert, and Nachmanides, 164.