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It has not always been easy to break with the more than two-thousand-year-old manner of translating the Hebrew Bible, the word-for-word manner. Thus in Gen. 14.1–2 (cf. vv…
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Harry Orlinsky
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New York, United States of America
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1969
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[ . . . ] It seems to me we are ready to rethink ourselves in America now; to preserve ourselves by a new culture-making.
Now you will say that this is a vast and stupid contradiction following all I…
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Cynthia Ozick
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1970
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Like other “holy men,” the rabbi played political, religious, and cultural roles. Just as the Zoroastrian Magus was involved in the administration of the local community, in the maintenance of cultic…
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Jacob Neusner
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1971
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Setting up a kosher home is not at all difficult once one gets the hang of what one is and is not allowed to do and eat. There is sometimes an unfortunate tendency among those just beginning to keep…
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The Jewish Catalog
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1973
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Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…
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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1690
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Judah Monis
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Cambridge, British America and the British West Indies
(Cambridge, United States of America)
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1735
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21. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we pray as on the first day, except that the liturgical poems are different. [ . . . ]
22. And the Musaf service is as on the first day, except that we do not…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres, Joseph Kosman
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1718
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A book titled in Ladino Obligasyon de los korazones [Duty of the Hearts] because it is translated from a text written by the pious gaon, our master Baḥya the judge, of blessed…
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Iehudah Machabeu
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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16th Century
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For I heard slander, fear was on every side [see Psalms 31:14], as the son of the despised maidservant slanders the son of the mistress, saying, “Those miserable Jews, they had a single language from…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1579
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Rules and regulations of Talmud Torah, now consolidated, and the general council of our community of Hamburg, whereby the members of the general council shall elect as parnasim (community leaders)…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Hamburg
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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1653