Elijah: A Study in Jewish Folklore

Elijah: A Study in Jewish Folklore / Samuel M. Segal......Page 3
Preface......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
I. Introduction......Page 17
A. The Elijah of Theology......Page 23
B. Elijah as the Peg for Jewish Thought......Page 25
II. SECTION I. The Historical Elijah......Page 35
2. Menasseh and Gilead Are Unto Him......Page 37
4. And Elijah Was Called Pinehas......Page 38
6. More Proof that Elijah Was from God......Page 39
1. Elijah Sees the End of Israel\'s Exile......Page 40
2. Forty Days on One Meal......Page 41
4. The Raven\'s Complaint......Page 42
5. Elijah Studied Constantly......Page 43
4. Whatever God Does the Righteous Can Do......Page 44
6. Elijah Prays for the Son of the Widow of Zarphat......Page 45
8. The Righteous Live For Ever......Page 46
10. Elijah Keeper of the Keys to Rain......Page 47
11. Elijah Commands the Elements......Page 48
2. Concerning the Dew and the Rain......Page 50
3. Ten Periods of Famine......Page 51
5. Wickeder than Jezebel......Page 52
1. Two Bullocks from One Manger......Page 53
2. And His Fingers Became Like Wells......Page 54
4. God Silenced the World......Page 55
F. Especially Sweet is the Prayer of Minha......Page 56
1. For the Sake of the Patriarchs......Page 57
2. Why Elijah Prayed as He Did......Page 58
4. Elijah Threatens God......Page 60
1. He Who Fights and Runs Away, Lives to Fight Another Day......Page 61
2. Neither God nor Kings Love Zealous Prophets......Page 62
3. Israel Is Like a Garden......Page 63
4. Three Kinds of Prophets......Page 64
6. The Prophets Are in Truth Merciful......Page 65
8. Only the Newly Born Have the Gift of Peace......Page 66
2. Elijah Is the Storm......Page 68
4. The Four Camps of Man\'s Habitation......Page 69
5. On the Obligations of a Guest......Page 70
7. Conversation Should End with a Word of Torah......Page 71
9. Nine Who Entered Paradise......Page 72
10. Other Evidences of Elijah\'s Ascent to Heaven......Page 73
11. The Fate of Elijah\'s Contemporaries......Page 74
1. Both Are Redeemers of Israel......Page 0
3. Hairy or Hairless, the Prophets Were Disliked......Page 78
III. SECTION II. The Legendary Elijah......Page 81
2. God Sees Both Sides of Every Question......Page 83
4. Of Prayers that Rocked the World......Page 84
7. Blessed Are the Peacemakers......Page 85
8. Prayer Restrains the Hand of Death......Page 86
1. How Sammael Gave Elijah a Beating......Page 87
2. Why Mordecai Rent His Garment......Page 88
3. Elijah Puts a Nail in Hainan\'s Coffin......Page 89
5. How Elijah Exalted the Memory of R. Simeon......Page 90
2. R. Ashi Clarifies Elijah\'s Answer......Page 92
4. Elijah Commands the Wearing of the Tallith......Page 93
3. Esther Knew Her Tannaim......Page 95
4. God Is Anxious to Show His Mercy......Page 96
5. The Earthquake Is God\'s Rod of Instruction......Page 97
7. Man Is Never Satisfied......Page 98
9. A Wife Does Help......Page 99
12. How Joshua b. Levi Saw the Rubies of Chalcedon......Page 100
13. The Rainbow Is a Sign of Unrighteousness......Page 101
14. Elijah Restores the Learning of Eleazar b. Arak......Page 102
1. Elijah\'s Ways Are Strange But Just......Page 104
2. Elijah Plays Virgil to Joshua......Page 107
3. How Joshua Maneuvered His Way into Paradise......Page 108
4. A Brief Statement of Elijah\'s Virtues......Page 109
5. Knowledge Is Like the Shears of Delilah......Page 110
6. Torah Is a Medicine and a Tonic......Page 111
8. Elijah\'s Formula for Happiness......Page 112
10. Father Elijah Is All Too Human......Page 113
11. The Hot-Tempered Are Barred from Torah......Page 114
2. Elijah Believes that Fear Is an Aid to Learning......Page 115
5. A Simple \"Please God\" May Be Worth Many Denars......Page 116
7. Elijah Makes the Prayer Fit the Occasion......Page 118
10. He Exposes a Murderer......Page 119
12. He Encourages Eliezer ben Horkenos......Page 120
2. Elijah Saves Nahum Gam Zu from Death......Page 122
5. Elijah Assures Ben Yohai of His Eternal Reward......Page 123
7. Elijah Is a Painless Dentist......Page 124
9. Rab Kahana Buttresses His Virtue with Elijah\'s Denars......Page 125
11. Beware of the Outer Garments of Piety......Page 126
1. Akiba Finds a Sweet Lodging in Death......Page 128
2. Elijah Is Delayed by Good Works......Page 129
1. The Story of the Thrice-widowed Bride Who Knew Her Torah......Page 131
2. Adultery with a Demon Not Illegal......Page 133
4. Never Get Angry on a Full Stomach......Page 134
1. Elijah Lets Himself Be Sold for Eighty Thousand Denars......Page 135
2. A Melange of Tall Tales......Page 138
3. Concerning a Woman Who Proved a Fit Trustee of God\'s Wealth, or, Consult Your Wife and Be Prosperous......Page 140
4. How to Make People Rich and Yet Keep Them Pious......Page 142
5. When Wealth Comes in at the Window, Piety Goes Out at the Door......Page 144
6. God Abandons Those Who Abandon the Poor......Page 146
7. Elijah Counsels Thrift, Even to the Gentile......Page 155
IV. SECTION III. Elijah in the Religious Speculations of Israel......Page 157
2. Reconciler of Children and Parents......Page 159
4. To Decide between Clean and Unclean, to Receive and to Expel......Page 160
5. Elijah, Messenger of Fruitfulness......Page 161
7. Restorer of the Pot and the Rod......Page 162
9. Elijah Limited in Power to Reverse Decisions......Page 163
3. Wine and Oil......Page 164
5. Halizah......Page 165
6. Terumah......Page 166
9. Concerning Matters of Trust......Page 167
11. Slaves and Freemen......Page 168
2. Ezra Played Safe with the Dots......Page 169
2. A Common-sense Deduction......Page 171
5. The Whirlwind Is Moses and the Storm Is Elijah......Page 172
6. The Messenger to Israel......Page 173
2. The Bearer of Good Tidings......Page 174
4. He Will Awaken Israel from Its Slumber......Page 175
6. In Speaking of the Dam, Elijah Is Meant......Page 176
7. The Seven Living Links......Page 177
3. Elijah Is Semi-express......Page 178
5. Elijah Records the Affairs of Men......Page 179
7. Elijah Will Demand that the Merits of the Children Redeem the Sins of the Parents......Page 180
8. Elijah Comforts the Messiah......Page 181
10. But for the Wise Chooser—a Kiss......Page 182
2. The Messiah Will Go, Elijah Will Remain......Page 183
3. And He Will Resurrect the Dead......Page 184
I. Elijah\'s Teachings......Page 185
II. Opinions on Elijah......Page 187
III. General......Page 190