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Look from the top of Amana (Song of Songs 4:8) and [see the type of] negotiation carried out faithfully [emunah]:
1. Be diligent in your transactions, to ensure that they are…
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Abraham ha-Levi Horowitz
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Lvov, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lviv, Ukraine)
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Beginning of the 17th Century
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In which it is explained that the essence of the Torah is the performance of the commandments, not intellectual knowledge; and also the reason why it is called the Talmud…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire (Friedberg, Germany)
Date:
1588
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On the twenty-fourth day of the counting [of the Omer] may there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. The handmaids of the emperor’s house would sing his praises: “no eye-shadow…
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Solomon Luria
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Mid–16th Century
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On the thirty-third day of the counting [of the Omer, i.e., Lag b’Omer]. May there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. May God continuously save the beautiful pearl, for whom the…
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Moses Isserles
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Mid–16th Century
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[ . . . ] And when a woman must go out, she should not push through the men and should keep her distance from large groups of men, since this is a great lewdness, and she should not go out…
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Moses Yerushalmi
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1596