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Index of Names and Subjects Abbaye, 179, 182n. 113 Abraham b. Azriel, R., 20, 21n. 3, 81-82, 87, 102n. 14, 112,260 Abraham b. Nathan ha-Yarhi, R., 51-53, 56-58, 193-94 Abraham b. Samuel he-Hasid, R., 103n. 16 Abraham Haldiq, R., 95, 113, 260 Abun family, 41, 131 academies: at Evreux, 26, 59-63, 71, 89, 90-92, 124, 177; at Mainz, 148; at Worms, 148, 186 adjurations, 141, 155, 181-82, 209, 212, 252. See also prayers; supplications ^aggadah, 60n. 76, lOOn. 11 Agobard of Lyons, 27-28 Aharon ha-Kohen of Lunel, R., 89 AkatriD el (angel), 223 c Aleynu prayer, 87, 179, 182n. 112 Alfasi, R. Isaac, 193n. 8 c aliyyah/c aliyyot, 53, 137 alphabet, Hebrew, 28, 86n. 156, 95n. 5, 97n. 9, 156, 221. See also numerical analyses c Amidah prayer, 43, 53, 54, 80, 91n. 175, 137-38 c Ammudei Golah. See Sefer Mizvot Qatan Amnon, R., story of, 107n. 26, 133n. 3 Amoraim, 253 Amtahat Binyamin, 178n. 104 amulets, 98n. 10, 227n. 16, 236 angelic names, 29, 53n. 54, 86, 97n. 9, 132, 154, 172, 182n. 112, 252 angels, 41n. 24, 112, 114, 168; adjuration of, 140, 212; of death, 138; Divine Names and, 244n. 67; in heaven, 210n. 42; as intermediaries, 13, 134, 226, 239n. 50; prayers and, 124n. 70, 147, 235n. 43; righteous people and, 201; in worldview of tosafists, 178n. 104. See also names of specific angels approbations, 89n. 169 Aqiva, R., 48, 150, 173, 225n. 11 Arbac ah Turim, 46, 247 c Arugat ha-Bosem, 20n. 3 asceticism, 33-37, 119, 124, 127, 242; antecedents in pre-Crusade period, 37-42; atonement and, 234; Christian, 126, 254; Evreux academy and, 62; German Pietists and, 220; R. Isaac of Corbeil and, 91; Rabbenu Yonah and, 66-67; of tosafists, 251, 253; in twelfth-century tosafist literature, 42-58 Asher b. Jacob ha-Levi of Osnabruck, R., 103 Asher b. Meshullam of Lunel, R., 43, 194n. 10 Ashkenaz, medieval, 30, 65, 79, 93, 107, 125, 256; adjuration of Divine Names in, 168; conception of piety in, 20; education initiation ceremony in, 237n. 47; esotericism in, 249; magic in, 141; mysticism in, 214; Passover customs in, 99n. 11; philosophical awareness in, 252; practice of fasting in, 111; rabbinic culture/ literature of, 33-34, 187, 257; torat ha-sod in, 166. See also France, northern; Germany astrology, 158, 193n. 9, 240n. 52 atonement, 25, 180n. 110, 234 Austria, 113, 260 Av, 39, 40, 42, 51, 62, 122 Avigdor b. Elijah Kohen Zedeq (Katz) of Vienna, R., 95n. 5, 97-98n. 9, 107, 108-9, 115, 221, 225-27, 234, 252, 260 265 INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS Avigdor b. Isaac, R., 98n. 9 Avinu Malkenu prayer, 48, 108-9, 226 c Avodah prayer, 49 Azulai, R. Hayyim Yosef David, 229 Baraita de-Massekhet Niddah, 49, 127-30, 157n. 63, 164n. 75, 255 Barekhu prayer, 96n. 7, lOln. 14, 143, 154n. 56, 224 Barukh b. Isaac of Worms, R., 68, 119, 120, 260 Barukh b. Samuel of Mainz, R., 68, 103, 105-6, 260 Benjamin b. Abraham ha-Navi, R., 231 Benjamin of Tudela, R., 194n. 10 Bereshit Rabbah, 53-54, 234n. 41 Bible, 108n. 110, 137 biblical commentaries/interpretations, 77, 95, 104, 145, 148, 235 black magic, 166, 211 Bohemia, 20, 113 Bonn, Germany, 214 burials, 119 charity, 91, 105, 108n. 28, 143n. 25 children, 42, 92n. 178, 109, 141, 156 Christianity, 69, 83, 123; Christian-Jewish polemics, 185; conversion to, 234; legend of Jewish pope, 134n. 4; magic and, 166 circumcision, 86n. 157, 230 commentaries, 26, 61, 95, 100, 101, 103-4, 145, 159 confession, 47, 91, 255 cosmogony 159 Creation story 149, 159 Crusades, 23, 40n. 20, 44, 126, 187 customs, 99n. 11, 107, 114, 128n. 81, 137, 138, 254, 256 dam niddah, 38 dam tohar, 38, 113, 130n. 86 Dan, R., 236, 247-48 death, 109, 123, 211; angel of, 138; communicating with the dead, 196-97 demons (shedim), 114, 178n. 104, 195, 198, 212, 219, 224-25, 239, 245; Divine Names and, 240; protection against, 204n. 33 derashot, 70 Devarim ha-Mevfim Lidei YvPat ha-Het, 64 dialectic, 23, 59, 69, 92, 256; Christian, 167n. 86; Rabbenu Tarn and, 189; tosafist, 26, 68, 69, 89, 186, 254 Diaspora, 44 divination, 147, 166, 210, 228, 245 Divine Being, 240, 241 Divine Names, 29, 53n. 54, 135, 155n. 59, 239, 252; alphabet and, 95n. 5; amulets and, 236; angels and, 10In. 14; biblical commentaries and, 95...

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