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What made Amos vs. Amaziah weigh so heavily in the annals of history? I can only attempt a hint or an inkling of an answer.
I do so best by returning to the vision of Amos, as he…
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Shalom Spiegel
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1957
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You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea: You will show faithfulness to Jacob. . . .
—Micah 7:19–20
In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, while I was walking along the…
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Isaac Erter
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1840
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As I write these words it occurs to me that, since it is the woman who runs the household, she must have wide knowledge and be a good manager. For many centuries our nation ignored women’s education…
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Rosa Gabbay
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1871
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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1879
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Pieter van den Berge
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1699
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They distort the words of the living God. It is a clear Torah lesson, as the sages have taught: “Whosoever speculates on four things, a pity for him! He is as though he had not come into the world.”
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Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1714
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The Lord to the prophet Ezekiel (may he rest in peace): you, son of man, show the House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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Question: . . . When Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi was visiting this land, he told me that he printed sixteen megillot on parchment prepared for this purpose [i.e., to be used for the scrolls—Ed.]. When I…
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Shalom Italia, Moses Provenzali
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Mantua, Holy Roman Empire
(Mantova, Italy)
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1560
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Says Moses, son to my Master, my father, R. Israel—may the memory of the righteous be for a blessing for the world to come—seeing that the illustrious author [Joseph Karo] of the Bet Yosef [Th…
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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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ca. 1570
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Question: I will inform you regarding my opinion on the fruit called al bun, and about kahve [coffee], which is the broth brewed from the husks of that fruit, and which is drunk by non-Jews, whether…
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David Ibn Abi Zimra
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
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Mid–16th Century