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Samuel Benavente
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1699
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota, Jacob Tsahalon
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Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
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1683
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The progress made by medical science over the last half century has been astounding. In the area of therapeutic medicine alone, developments have been nothing short of miraculous. […] Life-support…
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David H. Ellenson
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1990
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Art, which gives men the means to persevere and cure some sicknesses, seems nowadays to depend on philosophy, which is that great and clear source that produces all that is luminous and useful. I am…
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Joseph Vita Castelli
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
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1774
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I cannot refrain from relating an amazing, true story that I heard from that mouth of sanctity, the most outstanding disciple of our Holy Master, the rebbe, my dear friend—may…
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Israel ben Samuel of Shklov
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
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1836
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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1647
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This diploma of Doctor of Medicine was awarded to Jacob Mahler by the University of Padua, Italy. Mahler, born in Bingen-on-Rhine, Germany, studied medicine and philosophy, and in 1695 was awarded a…
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1695
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I swear by the Eternal God and by His ten most holy commandments, which were given on Mount Sinai through Moses as lawgiver after the people had been freed from their bondage in Egypt, that I have…
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Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Amatus Lusitanus
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1559
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So, to begin in the manner now accepted, in which (by scholarly consensus) the practice is to lay one…
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Servius de Levis, Rodrigo de Castro
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1614
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In correctly understanding the truest theory, there were many opinions; but I will bring two…
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Meir Magino, Tuviah ha-Kohen
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
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1707