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[Question:] A certain gentleman, a close and trusted friend, a Torah scholar who had read scripture, learned Mishnah, and ministered to many learned talmudic scholars, invited me to come to the holy…
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Jacobus Houbraken, Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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In the year 1803, on Sunday afternoon the 5th of June, I and my uncle, accompanied—from the town gate onwards—by a soldier, arrived at the bet midrash, located at the Zimmerhofe. The soldier left us…
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Leopold Zunz
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
Mid–19th century
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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