Ibid., fol. 90, col. 1.

“And they shall fall one on account of another” (Lev. xxvi. 37),—­one on account of the sins of another.  This teaches us that all Israel are surety for one another.

Shevuoth, fol. 39, col. 1.

If one find a foundling in a locality where the majority are Gentiles, then the child is (to be reckoned) a Gentile; if the majority be Israelites, it is to be considered as an Israelite; and so also it is to be, providing the numbers are equal.

Machsheerin, chap. 2, Mish. 7.

“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever” (Eccl. i. 4).  One empire cometh and another passeth away, but Israel abideth forever.

Perek Hashalom.

The world was created only for Israel:  none are called the children of
God but Israel; none are beloved before God but Israel.

Gerim, chap. 1.

The Jew that has no wife abideth without joy, without a blessing, and without any good.  Without joy, as it is written (Deut. xiv. 26), “And thou shalt reject, thou and thy household;” without blessing, as it is written (Ezek. xliv. 30), “That He may cause a blessing to rest on thy household;” without any good, for it is written (Gen. ii. 8), “It is not good that man should be alone.”

Yevamoth, fol. 62, col. 2.

The Jew that has no wife is not a man; for it is written (Gen. v. 2), “Male and female created He them and called their name man.”  To which Rabbi Eleazar adds, “So every one who has no landed property is no man; for it is written (Ps. cxv. 16), ’The heaven, even the heavens, are the Lord’s, but the earth (the land, that is), hath He given to the children of man.’”

Yevamoth, fol. 63, col. 1.

Three things did Moses ask of God:—­1.  He asked that the Shechinah might rest upon Israel; 2.  That the Shechinah might rest upon none but Israel; and 3.  That God’s ways might be made known unto him; and all these requests were granted.

Berachoth, fol. 7, col. 1.

What was the Shechinah?  Was it the presence of a Divine person or only of a Divine power?  The following quotations will show what is the teaching of the Talmud on the matter, and will be read with interest by the theologian, whether Jew or Christian.

Where do we learn that when ten persons pray together the Shechinah is with them?  In Ps. lxxxii. 1, where it is written, “God standeth in the congregation of the mighty.”  And where do we learn that when two sit together and study the law the Shechinah is with them?  In Mal. iii. 16, where it is written, “Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another, and the Lord hearkened and heard it.” (Berachoth, fol. 6, col. 1.)

    Where do we learn that the Shechinah does strengthen the sick? 
    In Ps. xli. 3, where it is written, “The Lord will strengthen
    him upon the bed of languishing.” (Shabbath, fol. 12, col. 2.)