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I received your inquiry in which you asked me to express my opinion . . . concerning a curtain with multicolored images that was designated a Torah curtain, and which has been used for some time for…
Contributor:
Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen
Places:
Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1732
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Since the law prohibits one, in no uncertain terms, from depicting figures, the question one may ask is how Jews have had all manner of paintings in their homes? And it is not enough to say that only…
Contributor:
Moses Raphael d’Aguilar
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century