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אדם אותו אותם אחד אחרי אי אי אפשר איש אלהים אלו אלי אליהם אליו אליך אמתת אנשי אנשים אפיקורוס אצל בא בדרך בה בהם בו בזה ביניהם בכל בלתי בני בעל בענין בשום דבר דברי דעת דת האדם האחד האיש האל האלה האמת האמתיות האפשרות הגוף הדבר הדברים הדת ההוא ההובר ההם הזאת הזה החבר החכמים היוצר היות הלא המשכיל המת הנה העולם העולם הזה העניינים הראשון השכל השמים השמש השני התורה ואומר ואיך ואין ואל ואם ואמנם והוא והיא והנה וזה ויאמר ויהי ויען וכי וכל ולזה ומה ועל ועתה זמן חז"ל טבע טו טרם יד יודע יוכל ירושלים ישראל ית כא כאשר כאשר זכרתי כח כישוף ככה כן כפי כת לב להאמין לו לי לך לשום מאד מבלי מדע מהם מוסר מורה מלאך ממנו מן מצד מציאות מצרים נא נביא נביאים עליהם עליו עלינו ענין עת פילוסוף פן צדק ראוי שאין שהוא שום שלא שמים שני תורתנו Pulgar
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Page 20 - devoted, certainly the most famous of the many 'followers of Astrology (though Pulgar. § 54, protests against the practice of regarding Ibn Ezra and Jehudah the Hasid as believers), mentions Jacob Ibn Tarik and Andruzagar ben Zadi Faruk, and among others may be mentioned also Shabattai Donólo, 913-970, Abraham ben Hiyya, Abraham, ben David of
Page 33 - body they are united and are at one with the Active Intelligence. The author finds himself compelled to own that the Dead had won the day. For it is clear that none attain this life while still swathed by the cerements of earth, and in truth no man sees God while alive
Page 10 - met with and the encouragement Pulgar received, led him to go further and endeavour to deal with other classes of critics. This treatise is divided into eight paragraphs, and deals with such matters as the necessity of revelation, for man's nature needs it, the excellence of the Torah, that Moses is
Page 18 - 42 a. But the subject of the prayer, or rather the object prayed for, must be a possible one ; it must be within the bounds of what God in his absolute untrammelled freewill fixed as proper, that is, possible. God knoweth what is possible, and what is not possible or proper
Page 12 - In the character and history of Moses, alone, do we find all these great qualities combined, and Pulgar, with evident satisfaction, goes carefully through the list of thirteen points, and indicates, in the words of Scripture, how each and all are to be found in Moses, Israel's great lawgiver,
Page 16 - meaning. There is the wise student, subjecting all to a reverent investigation, and, on the other hand, the reader who looks upon such a method as impiety. The former, says Pulgar, is more likely to reach to the real meaning, and the better able to withstand temptation than the latter ; the latter is perhaps a little too modest
Page 28 - 75 a l . The Kabbalists claim that they understand mysteries hidden from other men, and that they possess the power by means of charms to change the course of Nature. Pulgar relates the following little incident as related to him by a certain Kabbalist, Maistre Marcus by name
Page 28 - that the strange practices of the Kabbala should have reached the present generation without blemish. Two faults in particular Pulgar finds in the books of the Kabbalists—the first being the introduction of strange, uncouth words and expressions, and, secondly, an utter absence of precision and logic, leading in some cases to a positive denial of the Unity of God
Page 30 - Speak neither going nor when returning home. Hold the mirror in front of the woman in question- before you put it away from your hand, and that hitherto obdurate female will find you irresistible." Again, once there was a man gambling, and he had a spindle
Page 33 - and from these notes may perhaps be gleaned something of the power and character of its author. Isaac Pulgar is a name but little known to the present generation, but undoubtedly its possessor was a man fit to take his seat among the greatest of Israel's sons that shed lustre and fame upon the communities of the Iberian Peninsula.