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Updated: May 26, 2025
Those who copy them, still more those who print them, are declared sinners that make others to sin. I must confess that I am here on the side of the Code. Immanuel's Machberoth are scarcely worthy of the Hebrew genius. There has been, it may be added, a long struggle against Hebrew love songs. We must not imitate the songs and tales of ignorant and lascivious people.
For the most part, wrinkled old crones are the only decent women in his pages. His pretty women have morals as easy as the author professes. In the second of his Machberoth he contrasts two girls, Tamar and Beriah; on the one he showers every epithet of honor, at the other he hurls every epithet of abuse, only because Tamar is pretty, and Beriah the reverse.
I praise God who made day and night: Day thy countenance, and thy hair the night. Long before him the Hebrew poet Abraham ibn Ezra had written, On thy cheeks and the hair of thy head I will bless: He formeth light and maketh darkness. In the thirteenth century the very same witticism meets us again, in the Hebrew Machberoth of Immanuel.
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