_Ecclesiastes_ into the Old Testament canon. A number of
modern scholars, notably Kuenen, are of the opinion that this
body never existed in the form represented by Jewish tradition
(see Schurer, _History_, I, ii, pp. 354-355). On the
controversy regarding the existence of the Great Synagogue see
Schechter, _Studies_, II, 105-106. Consult Taylor, _ibid._,
pp. 110-111; Graetz, _History of the Jews_, vol. I, p. 381,
394, vol. II, p. 19. For further bibliography, see Strack,
_Spruche_, p. 11. See especially Herford, _Pharisaism_. pp.
18-28.

(8) Take measures to prevent the breaking of any of the divine
precepts. Thereby, certain things which are in themselves
lawful are prohibited in order to enforce the observance of
things the doing of which is unlawful. Compare Leviticus
XVIII, 30, "make a _mishmeret_ to my _mishmeret_" (_Yabamot_,
21a), and _Abot_, III, 17, "the _Massorah_ is a fence to the
_Torah_."

2. Simon, the Just (9), was of the last survivors of the Great
Synagogue. He used to say, "Upon three things the world rests: upon
the _Torah_, upon the Temple service (10), and upon the doing of acts
of kindness" (11).

(9) Simon, the Just, son of Onias, was high-priest about 300
B.C.E. See Josephus, _Antiquities_, XII, ii, 5. Consult
Sammter, _Mischnaioth Ordnung Zeraim_ (Berlin, 1887),
_Introduction_, pp. 10-22; Meilziner, _Introduction to the
Talmud_, pp. 22-39; the _Jewish Encyclopedia_, and Strack,
_Einleitung_, p. 82 _et seq._, for the lives of the