by Tuvia Fogel
CHAPTER 31
וירא אלהים את-כל-אשר
עשה והינה טוב מאד
ויהי ערב-ויהי בקר יום הששי
And God saw everything He had made, and behold, it was very good.
And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
And there are also many other things that Jesus did that, if every one should be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that should be written. Amen.
Footnotes
*1. Man-made creature of Jewish esoteric tradition
*2. “bastardmurmur”
*3. “Overseas.” The French word for the lands conquered in Syria was used in most of Europe.
*4. The most common Jewish outer garment in the Middle Ages, a sleeveless mantle with a single opening on the right
*5. A boat with a single lateen sail, the medieval ancestor of the felucca, but with no transom.
*6. “Fear not, it is me.”
*7. “What terrible times!”
*8. “I, poor little ignorant figure”
*9. “Why have the gentiles raged?”
*10. Cathars were divided into believers and consecrated perfecti, also known as bonhommes.
*11. One of Satan’s names, Beezelbub, comes from “Ba’al Zevuv,” Hebrew for “Lord of the Flies.”
*12. I give you my blessing.
*13. Heavily spiced mulled wine
*14. Cairo
*15. From the root hesed, loving kindness, a Hasid is a pious, righteous man. Also the root of “Hasidism.”
*16. Pronouncer of God’s Names
*17. Hebrew for “In the Beginning,” the first word of the Bible.
*18. A type of cross whose arms are narrow at the center and broader at the perimeter
*19. Lord have mercy
*20. Moroccan philosopher (d. 1198) whose real name was Abu al-Walid Muhammad ibn-Rushd.
*21. The civilian official charged with overseeing the actions, in this case maritime, of captains hired by the Venetian Republic.
*22. A consul was appointed to keep order among the pilgrims and enforce ship rules.
*23. Now called astrolabe, an inclinometer used to determine the latitude at sea by measuring the sun’s noon altitude
*24. The eastern half of present Libya
*25. A device used to suspend a person from a rope to perform work aloft
*26. I confess
*27. God forbid!
*28. “At your service,” but literally, in Italian and Venetian, “I am your slave”
*29. The term the Bible uses for the color of the blue cord in the tzitzith.
*30. Worshiping crimson, a medieval metaphor for veneration of the pope
*31. May God protect us!
*32. Checkmate
*33. Taretas, Greek lanteen-rigged horse transport vessels also used for freight, replaced dromons in the early thirteenth century.
*34. Ancient pilgrimage route between Canterbury and Rome passing through England, France, Switzerland, and Italy
*35. Jewish heretical movement, started in Babylon in the eighth century, that rejected Oral Law and Talmud
*36. Harets were cul-de-sacs starting from a street, with more cul-de-sacs branching off from the main one. They could thus be closed at night with one big wooden door, and it was the custom for them to be inhabited by members of a group, whether a community of foreign merchants, a tolerated sect, or just a rich extended family.
*37. Traditional Arab boat with one or two masts and lateen sails, used in the Mediterranean and Indian Ocean
*38. Priestly Blessing
*39. “such an accursed mingling”
*40. Famous first-century BC sage whose school usually issued more lenient rulings than that of his rival, Shammai
*41. Arab name for the Temple esplanade, literally: the Holy Precinct
*42. Alim (plural: ulema), Arabic for scholar; came to denote arbiters of sharia law, well versed in fiqh (jurisprudence)
*43. Arabic for infidel, unbeliever
*44. “War is delightful to those who have no experience of it.”
*45. Shouts of joy and salvation resound in the tents of the righteous.
*46. “Not to us, Lord, not to us, but to your Name give glory!” from Psalm 115
*47. Arabic for “monk”
*48. Arabic for doctor
*49. The moral code and religious law of Islam.
*50. Crazed, possessed
*51. The Templar standard, in battle or on keeps, was a vertical rectangle, the lower half white, the upper one black.
*52. Loose drawers similar to pajama bottoms, reaching to the ankle and held up by a drawstring called a tikka.
*53. A geniza is a storage area in a synagogue.
*54. Literally “protected,” the term for Jews and Christians under sharia, who cannot be converted by force but are to be exploited and humiliated
*55. A foreign trading post, often occupying a whole enclosed neighborhood of a city
*56. Statement of Islamic creed declaring belief in the oneness of God and acceptance of Muhammad as his prophet
*57. There is no sinning except against one’s conscience.
*58. Against the Jews—most Catholic theologians, at some point, wrote a tractate to refute Judaism with this title
*59. “The horse, as everyone knows, is the most important part of the knight!”
*60. Gate of the Column
*61. Ancient musical instrument used in Jewish religious rituals, traditionally made of a ram’s horn
*62. The immigration of Jews from the diaspora to Eretz Israel. Literally, “the act of going up” (to Jerusalem).
†1. The author of Ecclesiastes, traditionally assumed to have been King Solomon
†2. In Venice, a road alongside water, whether the lagoon or a canal
†3. Infidels captured by Muslims, forcibly converted and sold into slavery or trained as soldiers for the caliphate
†4. “The whore arrayed in purple and scarlet”
†5. Arabic for Satan
‡1. Ruah (plural: ruah’in) is Arabic for a spirit in the sense of invisible entity, as in “evil spirit” or “spirit of the dead”
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For the last 20 years, TUVIA FOGEL, the son of Transylvanian Holocaust survivors, has worked in Italian publishing, first as a nonfiction editor and then as a literary agent. Fluent in 5 languages, he lives in Milan, Italy.
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