614 index
Saadiah Gaon 276, 288, 307–8, 327,
330, 345
Book of Beliefs and Opinions 259,
280, 327–8
influence on rabbinic philosophy
327–8
Sabbatarians 370
Szombatos 196
Sabbath 15, 82–3, 95, 108, 111, 117,
196, 201–2, 251–2, 255, 440,
455, 532
business conduct in Hirsch’s
community 489
car parking 489
car use 494, 513
and Chorin 464
and Conservative Judaism 494
crafted utensils 369
electricity use on 450
eruv 511–12
Essene observance 133
and Havdalah 252
hymn Lekha Dodi 396–7
and the Karaites 303, 306
lamps/candles 251, 255, 325, 376,
455, 510
liturgy 247–9
as a public holiday in Israel 452
Reformgemeinde Sunday observ-
ance 464
Ukbarite observance 305
and women 251, 510
Sabbath Prayer Book (ed. Kaplan) 495
Sabbatianism 398–413
Sabbetai Zevi 397–407, 409, 424
conversion to Islam 403
death 405–6
marriage to Sarah (third wife) 406
messianic beliefs and movement
398–413
Sacchias (Zedekiah) 12
Sacks, Jonathan 512
sacrifice see worship: sacrificial
Saddok (teacher of ‘fourth philos-
ophy’) 106, 140
Sadducees 107, 110, 122–8, 142–3,
201, 209, 286, 303
approach to Torah 124–6, 127,
128
and Pharisees 115, 119–20, 124,
126, 127, 158, 218
Safed 363, 367, 375, 379, 385, 390,
391, 395
kabbalists 395–6
sages 160–65, 169, 170, 266–7, 270,
284–5
amoraim 28, 262, 265, 268
dealing with ‘heretics’ 285–8
tannaim 28, 36, 201, 262, 265,
281–2, 285–6, 308, 350
Sahl ben Matzliah 323
St Petersburg Library, Hebrew
manuscript collection 310
Salanter, Yisrael 503
Salome Alexandra 15, 98–9
Salonica 362, 363, 385, 409, 410
salvation 84–6
and atonement see atonement
and the ‘day of the Lord’ 86
Jesus and Christian notions of
194–5
of the nations 76, 85
and religious tolerance 457–8
and resurrection see resurrection
Samaria/Samaritans xxv, 12, 14, 23,
287, 390
Cuthaeans 12, 13, 59–60
identity of Samaritans 14, 59–60
Mount Gerizim temple
59–60, 97
separation from Jews 59–60
Samson 165
Samuel (judge) 10, 165
Samuel (of 3rd-century Babylonia)
270
Samuel, books of 22, 26, 31
II Samuel 84
Sana 528
sanctity see purity/sanctity/holiness
Sanhedrin 107, 115, 267, 375, 534