Sh?Mets Dávár: A Rabbinic Reading-Book (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Shĕmets Dávár: A Rabbinic Reading-Book. What may be called the Text of the First Chap ter consists of a few very easy extracts from the Book of 'j ashar' or 'j Osher.' These extracts are not of much importance - they serve chiefly as offer ing pegs, so to speak, on which to hang some Notes which perhaps may be of more importance to the Student than the extracts themselves.. In the first extract we are told that Noah and Methuselah were bid to call to repentance the people of the times before the Flood, and to promise that if they would repent the threatened destruction should not take place. In the last of the long lines on p. 1 the declaration is given that a fixed time of a hundred-and-twenty years was to be allowed them for repenting and forsaking their evil ways.[on this interval of a hundred-and-twenty years a Note, begun in the double columns below, is continued on the following pages.] The extract ends with an account of their refusing to attend to the warnings addressed to them.. About the Publisher. Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.