Glikl: Memoirs 1691–1719 by Chava Turniansky

Author:Chava Turniansky
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781684580064
Publisher: Brandeis University Press

END OF BOOK FOUR

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1. Glikl’s fourth child (see Family Tree C and her first mention in Book Three, p. 140).

2. Does Glikl mean here Chana’s vision of her dying grandfather (see this Book, p. 184)?

3. Christian V, who reigned from 1670 to 1699.

4. Exod 20:13.

5. Similar accounts of criminals and thieves who were sentenced to death and whose choice either to convert or to remain steadfast in their faith determined whether they were saved or sent to death, thus sanctifying God, are documented in various forms. Such stories were mostly documented in the Yiddish genre of “historical” songs (see Turniansky 1989, pp. 42–52), among them songs praising the accused Jew who remains steadfast in his faith, as Glikl does later (see, for example, Turniansky 1989, p. 44, n. 1; Shmeruk 1985, pp. 57–69).

6. One of the three AHW communities: Altona, Hamburg, and Wandsbeck (see Marwedel 1982). This is Glikl’s sole mention of this community, which had close administrative and geographic ties to Hamburg and Altona.

7. That is, he gave up his life publicly as a martyr for the sake of the God and the Torah of Israel (see this Book, n. 5).

8. Cf. b.Avodah Zarah 10b and elsewhere.

9. Deut 6:5; and cf. b.Berakhot 61b and elsewhere.

10. Cf. m.Sanhedrin 6:2; b.Sanhedrin 43b. This phrase is used frequently in medieval Hebrew and in the Responsa literature.

11. Cf. the story told about Rabbi Akiva (b.Ber. 61b).

12. See Deut 6:5; m.Berakhot 9:5, “and with all thy might, that is, with all thy wealth.”

13. Cf. b.Berakhot 61b, in a discussion of the same verse discussed here.

14. Cf. Deut 6:5.

15. See early in Book One, p. 51.

16. Glikl’s free Yiddish translation of the statement quoted earlier, n. 13.

17. That is, God appoints him as a steward charged with properly managing the money entrusted to his care (also see early in Book One, p. 51).

18. That is, it is impossible to measure or evaluate its worth. This possibly means that the interest is of no value in this world, in contrast to charity and good deeds, the fruits of which a man eats in this world, while the principal remains for him in the world to come, as noted by Rabinovitz 1929, p. 59.

19. Cf. b.Yevamot 25b; b.Sanhedrin 9b; and elsewhere.

20. Cf. Eccl Rab 1:32.

21. Eccl 4:8.

22. In various places early in Book One.

23. Cf. Ps 75:8.

24. Prov 19:21. The apostrophes in the three-letter Hebrew word meaning “that is” indicate that each letter of the word will now be explicated.

25. Here and once more later on, Glikl writes mistakenly “Eliezer.”

26. For the basis of the story that begins here about Hillel, Joseph, and Elazar ben Ḥarsom, see b.Yoma 35b. See notes that follow for possible additional sources of other details in the version brought by Glikl.

27. See Prov 29:3, “but he who keeps company with harlots will lose his wealth.” The expression is applied to Joseph in b.Sotah 36b and elsewhere.

28. Cf. “The garments she put on for him in the morning, she did not wear in the evening” (b.

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