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[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
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David Attias
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778
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This is the story of a queen who gave her daughter in marriage to a young king and then gave her the following instructions, inasmuch as she was about to be married. Since she was sending the daughter…
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Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1620
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Again, I caution you: when you go to some feast in celebration of the performance of a mitzvah, do not focus only on eating and drinking. Rather, you should first ask some sort of praiseworthy…
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Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1660
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In the year five thousand three hundred twenty-four [1564] of the Creation of the World, when we are returned to the houses of our fathers from the four corners of the world. After the expulsion in…
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Ḥevra Kadisha of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
16th Century
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King Solomon, of blessed memory, wrote in Proverbs that one ought not to be too pious and one ought not to do too much evil. [The allusion, however, is to Ecclesiastes 7:16–17.] Accordingly, our sages…
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Zvi Hirsch Koidanover
Date:
1705
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I must first briefly describe human nature. Namely, we people contain within us the four fundamental [elements] like all other species of creation that are below us or inferior to us. It…
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Matheus Staedlein, Isaac Wetzlar
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(Celle, Germany)
Date:
1749
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We have a lovely tale at hand,
It’s come to us from a distant land,
That land is West India, and
Many people in the world
Call that area the New World.
Our tale’s about a wife who let her spouse
Leav…
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Anonymous
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ca. 1665
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One must know that man possesses a greater virtue than the beast, because a beast also has in it the breath of life and likewise has the intelligence to eat and drink, and the desire to lie with the…
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Johann Valentin Schüler, Beer Perlhefter, Bella Perlhefter
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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End of the 17th Century
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Since animals do not use these faculties [strength, speed, or cunning] for the purpose of [gaining] their livelihood, this shows that that which a man does with the strength of his body, and the sweat…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1599
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Do not judge me so vain (O Reader) that, to make myself wise, I would publish my efforts for the world to see, especially when they open your eyes to their pathetic titles. For this is a…
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Angelo (Mordechai) de Soria
Places:
Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1751