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One may not behave frivolously in synagogues and study houses, including exhibiting such behaviors as laughter, teasing, and idle conversation. One may not eat or drink in them, nor may one…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1563
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[ . . . ] And all the more so with our brethren the people of Israel who come from the lands of the dispersion, who do not know and have not seen the way in which every person called by the name of…
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Samuel Aboab
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
ca. 1650
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This disunity among us, the lack of piousness for one another, the civil war of murmurings in places where conversations and visits occur, evils that have caused the past and…
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1723
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This preface represents not a collated anthology but is rather the result of forgetfulness on my part, insofar as I have been terse in the words I have written, which place on record that…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
Places:
Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1775
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I am Rabbi Balfour Brickner. I serve as the national director of the Commission on Interfaith Activities, a joint commission of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the Jewish Chautauqua Society…
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Balfour Brickner
Places:
Washington, United States of America
Date:
1974