Baal-Berith (1816) (Re: Casher, Shofar, Meshummad, Notaricon)

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MODERN JUDAISM:
OR, A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE OPINIONS, TRADITIONS, RITES, AND CEREMONIES, OF THE JEWS IN MODERN TIMES
by John Allen
London:  T. Hamilton
1816

   That last publisher should be "Burnside," not "Brunside."
   Everything in 1830 is also here in 1816.
   I couldn't find "bris" in the OED.  Merriam-Webster has 1902 for "Brith Milah."

Pg. 69:  It was called The Shield of David:_ the inscription _Agla_ is composed of the initals of four Hebrew words.

Pg. 74:  But the principal branches of the _Literal_ Cabbala are three, denominated _Gematria_, _Notaricon_, and _Temura_.

Pg. 75:  _Notaricon_ is a term borrowed from the ROmans, among whom the _notarii_, notaries or short hand writers, were accustomed to use single letters to signify whole words, with other methods of abbreviation.

Pg. 136:  One of their most common terms or reproach is (Hebrew letting of following--ed.) _Meshummad_, which signifyies a person ruined and destroyed; and the imprecation that generally follows is (Hebrew lettering--ed.) _Jemach Shemo Vesicro_, Let his name and memory be blotted out.

Pg. 156: ...as it is said, (Psal. lxv. 2.) "O thou that hearest prayer;" that is the prayer of the angel, who is the _Mashal_, or guardian of men.

Pg. 285:  In due season must also be provided a person whom the rabbies call _Baal Berith;_*...
*(Hebrew lettering--ed.) _Baal Berith_, signifying _a master of the covenant_, that is, of circumcision.  By those who have written in English, Jews as well as Christians, the person sustaining this character has generally been denominated _the god-father_...

Pg. 291:  This operation is called _Periah;_* and the pains it occasions to the infant are far more acute than those of circumcision itself.
*(Hebrew lettering--ed.) from (Hebrew lettering--ed.) _to uncover or make bare_.
("Periah" is not in the OED?--ed.)

Pg. 390:  The shouphar or cornet is sounded many times in the course of this festival.  Among other reasons for it, the following is assigned in one of the prayers: "Thy people are assembled to supplicate thee; they blow and sound the shouphar, as it is said in thy law, to confound the accuser, (Pg. 391--ed.) Satan, that he may not be able to accuse them before thee."

Pg. 403:  THE FEAST OF DEDICATION commences on the twenty-fifth of the month of Chisleu, and continues eight days.

Pg. 404:  Hence this feast is also called the _feast of lights_.
(OED doesn't have "feast of lights," but "chanukah" was coined in 1891--ed.)

Pg. 407:  If he find the least blemish of any kind, the whole carcase is rejected as unfit for Jewish tables.  If it be found in the state required, he affixes to it a leaden seal, on one side of which is the word (Hebrew lettering--ed.) _Casher_ which signifies _right_, and on the other the day of the week in Hebrew characters.