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OR,

A COMPARISON OF THE PRINCIPLES AND DOCTRINES

OF

MODERN JUDAISM

WITH THE

RELIGION OF MOSES AND THE PROPHETS.

BY THE

REV. ALEXANDER MCCAUL, D.D.,

OF TRINITY COLLEGE, Dublin.

LONDON:

PUBLISHED AND SOLD AT THE LONDON SOCIETY'S OFFICE,
16, EXETER HALL, STRAND:

BY DUNCAN, PATERNOSTER ROW; HATCHARDS, PICCADILLY;
NISBET, BERNERS STREET; AND WERTHEIM,

ALDERSGATE STREET.

1837.

MACINTOSH, PRINTER,

GREAT NEW STREET, LONDON.

ADVERTISEMENT.

THE reader will perceive by the date at the head of each number, that the following papers were published weekly, and, from the contents, he will readily infer that they were intended for distribution amongst those Jews, who still adhere to the Rabbinic system. But in presenting them to the public as a volume, it may be well to state that the great object was to exhibit Judaism as it appears in its practical workings, and that therefore most references are made to the Jewish Prayer-book, and to the codes of law commonly in use amongst Rabbinic Jews, and which are considered as authoritative. It was the Author's wish, not to ridicule any man's superstition, but to instruct those, whom Moses and the Prophets would have declared to be in error. He has, therefore, carefully avoided the tone in which Eisenmenger and others have treated this subject, and, in treating the Jewish legends, has confined himself to those which are mentioned in the prayers of the Synagogue. The materials are the result of many years' study and and practical observation. Buxtorf, Majus, Edzard, Eisenmenger, Wagenseil, &c., have been carefully consulted, but the Jewish Liturgies, the Arbah Turim, the Shulchan Aruch, the Yad Hachasakah, are the principal sources, whence this view of Judaism has been drawn. The Author has only to add a hope, that these papers may not be misunderstood, either by Jew or Christian, but that all who read them will carefully distinguish between Judaism and the Jewish people-and a wish, that they may contribute to the welfare of Israel, and the promotion of truth.

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