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Question: The holy community of Rhodes (may their Rock protect and sustain them) agreed and accepted upon themselves, under the threat of very severe penalties, that no member of Israel—not Sargons n…
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David Ibn Abi Zimra
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
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Mid–16th Century
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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)
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ca. 1650
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It has been clarified for you that the survival of Israel in their state of exile depends on their unity and their connection with each other, and their separation from the idolatrous nations. It is…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1599
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Question: From Rhodes. When the Lord expanded the borders [see Deuteronomy 19:8] of the dispersion of the diaspora and granted us a remnant and remainder in the kingdom of Turkey, He treated us with…
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David Ibn Abi Zimra
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
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Mid–16th Century
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To my lords Jedaniah, Uriah and the priests of YHW the God, Mattan son of Jashobiah and Berechiah son of, . . . from your servant Mauziah.
May the God of Heaven seek after the welfare of my lords…
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Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
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Late 5th Century BCE
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Psychoanalysis, dialectic materialism, nothing; laws of supply and demand, nothing, nothing; fiction, nothing. Nothing seemed applicable…
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Moacyr Scliar
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Porto Alegre, Brazil
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1980
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On the 3rd of Phamenoth, year 5. This is (= these are) the names of the Jewish garrison who gave silver to YHW the God, each person silver, [2] shekels—
Meshull[em]eth daughter of Gemar[ia]h son of…
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Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
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400 BCE
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[And I read some words to this effect in the letter of R. Abraham Blipp—may the All-Merciful protect and redeem him—written to Venice on November 5, 1607, to our teacher, R. Judah—may the righteous be…
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Abraham Blipp
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1607
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Is the Jewish existence so hollow and frail that it took hundreds of thousands of human victims in order to consolidate it, as the claim that the Bar Kochba rebellion ensured our continuity would seem…
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Yehoshafat Harkabi
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1981
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Successive, often polemic interpretations, citations in a context of sacred doctrine or of political-historical opportunity, construe, around the archaic, cardinal words in the Hebrew canon, a…
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George Steiner
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Saratoga Springs, United States of America
(Geneva, Switzerland)
Date:
1985