It deserves to be noted here for the information of some of our readers that the words translated above, Save now, or Save, we beseech thee, are the original of our word Hosanna.  The 25th and 26th verses of Psalm cxviii, which begin with this expression, were repeated at the Feast of Tabernacles; and hence the bundles of palm and willow branches (carried on this occasion), the prayers, and the festival itself, were so named, i.e.  Hosanna.

The Tempter is known by seven distinctive epithets:—­(1) The Holy One—­blessed be He!—­calls him evil; as it is said, “For the imagination of man’s heart is evil.” (2.) Moses calls him uncircumcised; as it is said (Deut. x. 16), “Circumcise therefore the uncircumcised foreskin of your heart.” (3.) David calls him unclean; as it is said (Ps. li. 10), “Create in me a clean heart, O God!” Consequently there must be an unclean one. (4.) Solomon calls him enemy; as it is said (Prov. xxv. 21, 22), “If thine enemy hunger, give him bread to eat; if he be thirsty, give him water to drink; for thus thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee” (i.e., oppose him with the law.  The word rendered bread, is metaphorically taken for the law, Prov. ix. 5, so that give him water to drink means also the law, Isa. lv. 1—­Rashi.  And the Lord reward thee, read not reward, but cause him to make peace with thee, not to war against thee.) (5.) Isaiah calls him stumbling-block; as it is said (Isa. lvii. 14), “Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumbling-block out of the way of my people.” (6.) Ezekiel calls him stone; as it is said (Ezek. xxxvi. 26), “I will take away the heart of stone out of your flesh and I will give you a heart of flesh.” (7.) Joel calls him the hidden one; as it is said (Joel ii. 20), “I will remove far from you the hidden one,” i.e., the tempter who remains hidden in the heart of man; “and I will drive him into a land barren and desolate,” i.e., where the children of men do not usually dwell; “with his face toward the former sea,” i.e., with his eyes set upon the first Temple, which he destroyed, slaying the disciples of the wise that were in it; “and his hinder part toward the latter sea,” i.e., with his eyes set on the second Temple, which he destroyed, also slaying the disciples of the wise that were in it.

Succah, fol. 52, col. 1.

Once a Jewish mother with her seven sons suffered martyrdom at the hands of the Emperor.  The sons, when ordered by the latter to do homage to the idols of the Empire, declined, and justified their disobedience by quoting each a simple text from the sacred Scriptures.  When the seventh was brought forth, it is related that Caesar, for appearance’ sake, offered to spare him if only he would stoop and pick up a ring from the ground which had been dropped on purpose.  “Alas for thee, O Caesar!” answered the boy; “if thou art so zealous for thine honor,