{"collection":"Judaism","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/jud/jms/jms20.htm","path":"jud/jms/jms20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/jud/jms/jms20.htm","text":"Jewish Magic and Superstition, by Joshua Trachtenberg, [1939]\n(Notes on pp. 267-268)\nThis passage closely parallels Ba\u1e25ya b. Asher's comment on Ex. 28:17, both apparently being derived from a common source. They were composed at about the same time, so that one could hardly have drawn from the other; each lacks passages present in the other; the language of the two is very similar, but Ba\u1e25ya's text is longer and more wordy, while the present text contains several additional details about the use of the gems; and there are some interesting differences which illustrate the different environments (Spain and Germany) in which they were composed.\n1. Cf. Gen. R. ch. 98, 7; Rashi on Gen. 35:22.\n2. Rubino, ruby; Ba\u1e25ya continues with a long description of this gem which is lacking here.\n3. Gen. 30:14.\n4. See p. 182 above. From here to the end of the paragraph not in Ba\u1e25ya.\n5. Fels, mhd. vels, velsch; cf. Grimm, Deutsches W\u00f6rterbuch, s. v. Fels.\n6. Gen. 37:21.\n7. Gen. 42:22.\n8. Gen. 41:42.\n9. Perhaps this is the prasinum, a species of smaragd (cf. Ducange, s. v.); Ba\u1e25ya: \u05d5\u05e0\u05e7\u05e8\u05d0 \u05e4\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05f4\u05de\u05d0 \u05d5\u05d4\u05d9\u05d0 \u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05e0\u05d5\u05e4\u05da \u05e9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05de\u05e8\u05e7\u05f4\u05d3\u05d9 \u05e9\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05d2\u05dd \u05db\u05df \u05d9\u05e8\u05d5\u05f3 \u05db\u05db\u05e8\u05ea\u05d9.\n10. Then this should read \u05e1\u05de\u05e8\u05dc\u05d3\u05d0, smiraldus, smeraldus, another species of smaragd. This word does not appear in Ba\u1e25ya.\n11. Nu. 25:14.\n12. Job 28:19.\n13. Gen. 29:33.\n14. Carbuncle.\n15. Gen. 6:16.\n16. Is. 54:12.\n17. Deut. 33:50.\n18. Ecc. 8:1.\n19. Cf. Sotah 12a; Pirke de R. Eliezer, ch. 48.\n20. Ex. 34:35.\n21. From here to end of paragraph not in Ba\u1e25ya.\n22. Deut. 34:7.\n23. Smaragd. Ba\u1e25ya has here a discussion of the Arabic etymology of this word, and comments \u05d5\u05d4\u05d5\u05d0 \u05de\u05de\u05d9\u05df \u05e4\u05e8\u05d0\u05e9\u05f4\u05de\u05d0.\n24. Cf. Gen. 38.\n25. Gen. 37:33.\n26. Gen. 49:9.\n27. Preceding six words not in Ba\u1e25ya.\n28. Gen. 49:8.\n29. I Chr. 12:32; Ba\u1e25ya's name for this stone is \u05e9\u05e4\u05d9\u05f4\u05dc\u05d5.\n30. Prov. 3:8; this paragraph is much longer in Ba\u1e25ya.\n35. Perla, pearl; the suggested reading is confirmed in Ba\u1e25ya.\n32. Gen. 30:20.\n33. Topazia, topaz; Ba\u1e25ya: \u05d0\u05e9\u05d8\u05db\u05e1\u05d9\u05f3.\n34. Cf. Jud. 18.\n35. Turkiska, turquoise; Ba\u1e25ya: \u05d8\u05d5\u05e8\u05e7\u05d9\u05d6\u05d0.\n36. Gen. 30:8.\n37. Cristalo, crystal; Ba\u1e25ya: \u05e7\u05e8\u05d9\u05e1\u05d8\u05d0\u05f4\u05dc.\n38. Deut. 33:20.\n39. Diamanti, diamond; Ba\u1e25ya: \u05dc\u05d9\u05d0\u05de\u05df.\n40. Job 39:4.\n41. Is. 38: 16.\n42. From here to end of paragraph not in Ba\u1e25ya.\n43. I have not succeeded in tracing this word.\n44. Yakint, jacinth; Ba\u1e25ya: \u05e7\u05e8\u05d9\u05d0\u05d5\u05dc\u05d9\u05e7\u05f3.\n45. Gen. 49:20; from here to end of paragraph not in Ba\u1e25ya.\n46. I Chr. 7:31.\n47. Nichilus, nichilinus lapis, achetae species (Ducange, s. v.); Ba\u1e25ya: \u05d0\u05d5\u05e0\u05d9\u05e7\u05dc\u05d9.\n48. Gen. 39:2.\n49. Ibid.\n50. Jasper; Ba\u1e25ya: \u05d9\u05e9\u05e4\u05d9\u05d6.","title":"Jewish Magic and Superstition: Appendix II. Ms. Sefer ...","type":"page"}