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In this scene from Mūsā nāmā (The Book of Moses), Phinehas (bottom right) surprises the Israelite Zimri in forbidden intercourse with the Midianite woman Cozbi and impales the two of them on his lance…
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Mowlānā Shāhīn-i Shīrāzī, Artist Unknown
Places:
Tabriz, Ottoman Empire
(Tabriz, Iran)
Date:
1686
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It is known that in the case of any proper work to be accomplished or any project to be achieved, the essential point is the end goal [תכלית] of the project…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1580
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Rabbinic literature is replete with valuable information about the life, manners and customs of the ancients. Many passages in it can be properly understood only in the general frame of its…
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Saul Lieberman
Date:
1962
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Shulḥan ‘Aruk, a term taken over from early rabbinic exegesis in the Midrash and applied to one of the most influential, truly epochal literary creations of Jewish history, has a double or even triple…
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Isadore Twersky
Places:
Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1967
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We read in Proverbs:
If you make your ear attentive to wisdom
And your mind open to discernment;
If you call to understanding
And cry aloud to discernment,
If you seek it as you do silver…
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Judah Loew
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1595
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[Text:] § 22 The Midrash says: “For the sake of four things were our…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
Date:
1590
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Is the Jewish tradition inherently liberal or inherently conservative? The answer to this much-debated question is quite simple: yes.
Which is to say that if by “the Jewish tradition” we mean what is…
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Leonard Fein
Places:
Boston, United States of America
Date:
1995
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The fourth letter, ד, has the shape of an open doorway and its name, דָּלֶת, dalet, is cognate with דֶּלֶת [deles], door. The ד also alludes to דַּל, pauper, who knocks on doors, begging for alms. In…
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Michael L. Munk
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1983
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It was one of the stories from Genesis that most frightened me as a child: the story of Lot’s wife.
She was told not to look, and she looked; and her punishment came swift and horrible. Frozen in…
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Rebecca Goldstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1992