## Hasagot HaRa'avad on Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations Chapter 6

###### Hasagot HaRa'avad on Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations 6:1:1
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**כיצד מעשה האוב זה שהוא עומד ומקטיר.** א"א בבית הקברות עושה כן ובעור של אדם מת ומדבר משחיו של מת:

**Mishnah Torah, Yod ha-hazakah, trans. by Simon Glazer, 1927:**
**How is enchantry etc.** He makes that performance on a graveyard, covered in the skin of a dead person, and speaks from out of the arms of the dead.¹

footnotes:
¹ Where the RABD. got this from is a mystery. The practice of the Witch of En-dor (1 Sam. 28. 12) was performed without a cemetery. C.G.


###### Hasagot HaRa'avad on Mishneh Torah, Foreign Worship and Customs of the Nations 6:10:1
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**אלא כל האכסדראות וכו' של אבן היו לא של עץ.** א"א לשכת העץ בית היתה, בימה של עץ שעושין למלך בשעת הקהל לשעתה היתה. וכן גזוזטרא שהקיפו בעזרת נשים בשמחת בית השואבה לשעתה היתה:

**Mishnah Torah, Yod ha-hazakah, trans. by Simon Glazer, 1927:**
**But all corridors etc.** The 'Wooden Chamber' was a real dwelling-place; the Wooden Almemor which was made for the king when all came together to hear him expound the Torah once in seven years, was of a temporary construction; so was the gallery around the Women's Court during festivities of the Libation of Water a temporary construction.¹

footnotes:
¹ This evidently was not intended as a contradiction against Maimonides. See Midot, 28. G.