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Meat strengthens the body and provides it better nourishment than the other foods. Right after slaughtering it is very good and useful, but old meat is one of the causes of illness. The hard meat of…
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David de Silva
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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Ḥevra Kadisha of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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16th Century
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It is known that our teacher and rabbi, the gaon, exemplar of his generation, the rabbi and teacher Judah bar Bezalel, who is known as R. Loew of Prague, of blessed memory, in several places in his…
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Jacob Horowitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1622
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[ . . . ] Each man should raise his children to Torah and good deeds. Each man should always ensure that his children learn Torah while they are still young and he should have them learn…
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Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen
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1620
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Salomon Saveri, Benedict de Castro
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1631
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When bloodletting is done at the right time, and when there is need for it, it promotes the health of the person, as I shall write about, God willing. When bloodletting is…
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Issachar Baer Teller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1655
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I found it written somewhere that the eleven offerings brought on Rosh ḥodesh [the New Moon] correspond to the eleven extra days of the solar year over and above those of the…
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Moses Isserles
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
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1570
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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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The study program of a Torah scholar should follow roughly this order: the Bible, as mentioned above, and the entirety of the Mishnah, as stated above. He should even complete the Orders of the…
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Jonah Landsofer
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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David Ganz
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Jeßnitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Germany)
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18th Century