Hence every word in it is sacred.

There is no difference whatsoever between the verse "And Timna was the concubine" (Gen.36.

12) and "Hear, O Israel: the Lord our God, the Lord is one" (Deut 6.

4).

[1] [Footnote 1: See Maimonides' exposition of the dogma of the divine origin of the Torah in his Mishnah Commentary, _Sanhedrin_, chapter X.] Withal, the leaders of the Northern Hasidim were, comparatively speaking, "men of the world," and were ready here and there to make concessions to the demands of the age.