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Indeed, in the countries where we reside, where the gentile women walk about bareheaded, but our mothers did not go out like that and were most careful on that score, concerned as they were about…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire
(Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1839
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They distort the words of the living God. It is a clear Torah lesson, as the sages have taught: “Whosoever speculates on four things, a pity for him! He is as though he had not come into the world.”
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Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
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Question: I will inform you regarding my opinion on the fruit called al bun, and about kahve [coffee], which is the broth brewed from the husks of that fruit, and which is drunk by non-Jews, whether…
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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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Question: Whether in those marriages contracted under civil marriage law—without betrothal according to the rite of Moses and Israel—the woman can leave without a get [Jewish religious writ of divorce…
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David Tsvi Hoffmann
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1899
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[ . . . ] During the Middle Ages and the decrees of the year 5408 [1648], when our brethren the children of Israel believed with real faith in the Almighty and in His…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1938–1939
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Now in regard to your inquiry as to my view on the question of the halakhic status of the odor of leavened substances on Passover, as there are some authorities who maintain that odor is…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1793
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Question 30: From Gaza: may our master teach us whether the inhabitants of Gaza are obligated to separate terumot and tithes, as there are a few people who own land. In general, the question is…
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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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O great mountain (Zechariah 4:7), the exalted and raised (Isaiah 52:13), precious cornerstone (Isaiah 28:16), my teacher, my rabbi, may the Merciful One guard and bless him, may God protect him and…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1732
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The reason for this is that if they see Torah scholars, and those who repair the breaches in Jewish religious practice, voiding the Torah in accordance with the exigencies of time and place, they will…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire
(Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1810
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And likewise I say: Whoever mingles teachings of Kabbalah with rulings of halakhah is liable for kilayim—sowing a forbidden mixture of seeds, “Lest the fullness of the seed you have sown be forfeited”…
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Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire
(Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1835