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David Ganz
Places:
Jeßnitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Germany)
Date:
18th Century
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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[1] After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and I saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing…
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Abraham Rademaker, Baruch Spinoza
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1662
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Illustrious sir, having frequently thought about and recalled many treatises which in the presence of Your Worship were practiced during the time when I enjoyed your divine…
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Moses Almosnino
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1564
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The study program of a Torah scholar should follow roughly this order: the Bible, as mentioned above, and the entirety of the Mishnah, as stated above. He should even complete the Orders of the…
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Jonah Landsofer
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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These are the conditions for a proper wife so that she will be cherished by her husband, so that he will not come to set his…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1712
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There are a few Torah scholars who are rich in knowledge and whose mental grasp is abundant, while others do not possess an intellectual grasp akin to theirs, for everyone possesses mental grasp in…
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Yeḥiel Mikhel Epstein
Places:
Fürth, Holy Roman Empire
(Fürth, Germany)
Date:
1683–1693
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So, to begin in the manner now accepted, in which (by scholarly consensus) the practice is to lay one…
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Servius de Levis, Rodrigo de Castro
Places:
Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1614
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From B. d. S.
Sir,
Yesterday I received your letter, which was very welcome to me, as much because I wanted to hear some news from you as because I see that…
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Baruch Spinoza
Places:
The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1674
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Now the daughter of the King of the Kittim, on hearing this, became highly enraged, and she said, “Is there any room to defend the cause of these people who were lacking in wisdom and set down a…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century