 But he points out the many edifying sentences that are scattered throughout the Aggada, and quotes a great number of them.As was to be expected, this work, adopted by the majority of Haskalah Talmudic scholars as the standard history of the oral law, called forth replies from some dissenters.Isaac Halevy is known to have written his "Dorot ha-Rishonim" against Weiss's "Dor" (mainly in notes at the end of the sixth vol.