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Shalem Shabazi
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Taiz, Yemeni Zaidi State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
Before 1646
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Gen. 1:11: Tree of fruit producing fruit for its kind—Every tree is called a “tree of fruit,” and they all produce fruit, some for food and some for healing. As for the phrase, “producing fruit for…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1602
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When the world wearies of day’s golden egg,
Shabrang, the dark bay steed, appears
From under the crow’s wings…
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Khwājah Bukhārā’īā
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Bukhara, Khanate of Bukhara (Bukhara, Uzbekistan)
Date:
1606
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This is the statute of the Torah . . . זאת חקת התורה—It should say זאת חקת הפרה (“this is the statute of the heifer”), as it says elsewhere “this is the statute of the Passover” (Exodus 12:43)! And if…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1610
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More than twenty-five centuries have passed since an anonymous Jewish poet wrote an elaborate and lengthy prayer that included this exclamation:O how I love your teaching!It is my study all day long (…
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Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler
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College Park, United States of America
Date:
2004
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Why does a book on Jewish philosophy begin with a discussion of revelation? First, because it is revelation that creates Judaism as a religion. […] Without God’s…
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Neil Gillman
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1990
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David Nieto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1714
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King Solomon (may he rest in peace) said: The righteous man walketh in his integrity [Proverbs 20:7]. Now this means that a man should follow God’s…
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Jacob Ashkenazi of Janov
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Janov, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Janów Lubelski, Poland)
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Early 17th Century
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Any literary account of the Hebrew Bible must recognize [its] quality of extreme heterogeneity. […] From one point of view, it is not even a unified collection but rather a loose anthology that…
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Robert Alter
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1987
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The whole of chapter three and part of four are taken up with the Divine call to Moses, his preparations for undertaking the mission, the overcoming of all his hesitations, from the historic promise…
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Nehama Leibowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993