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Furthermore, with regard to a synagogue, one should be careful when leaving the synagogue not to leave with one’s back to the altar, where the Torah scroll is placed. Rather, one should face the holy…
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Elijah de Vidas
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1579
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I wish to praise God
who is great in praises,
who created for man
all kinds of flowers,
and they all are singular
in their colors and scents
and of all the best ones
was the musk flower.
Above all…
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Anonymous
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1702
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A Lion on his deathbed lay.
There’s truth in every word I say.
He was gravely ill indeed.
Then came to him a goodly host
Of all the forest-dwelling beasts.
They came most eagerly…
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Unknown
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1595
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Terah:Who is he and where is he [see Esther 7:6], who against the Ba‘al idol
Sent forth his hand like an adversary, with impudence?
Who is this evil one…
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Moses Zacuto
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1642
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The king assigned them portions of food and wine, each day on its day, from the king’s food and wine. They were to raise [the boys] three years; afterwards some of them would stand before the king…
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Samuel de Valerio
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Chalandritsa, Ottoman Empire
(Chalandritsa, Greece)
Date:
1580
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The Rambam [Maimonides] wrote: The reason why the laws of women precede the laws of damages is in keeping with the order of the verses, as it is stated: If a man sell his daughter as a maidservant…
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Jacob ḥagiz
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1645
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Socrates’ defence was very carefully heard in the presence of the Academicians in the public assembly over a few days, and it produced no little disquiet in the minds of the judges, whose minds turned…
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Simone Luzzatto
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1651
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Translated by David Malkiel.
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Isaac Lampronti
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Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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In this chapter, the prophet speaks mainly of life and spiritual death, and your scholars concede this, as is seen in Nicolão de Lira’s exposition on the same chapter. And thus, you await greater…
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Elijah Montalto
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Livorno, Duchy of Tuscany
(Livorno, Italy)
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Early 17th Century
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The ten halakhic questions raised by a certain individual directed against the Oral Law, and several of the commentaries upon it, have reached us. I have not needed to carry out a great deal of…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1619