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6. “It is proper,” etc. The phraseology employed by the Tur is “And one should cover one’s head so that one should not be in a state of bareheadedness”—this is taken from the words of the Ba‘al ha-…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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ca. 1803
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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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Moses Belmonte, The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1655, 1667, 1679
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In general, the power of the influence exerted by the Master, R. Mendele, on my revered father over many years since his return from (studying with) him, was very great. […
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Barukh Ha-Levi Epstein
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1926
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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1879