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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)
Date:
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
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire
(Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1835
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The Jewish Community of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1702
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Question: The following incident occurred in Rhodes: Reuben purchased 530 okes of wax from Simeon via a third party. Reuben did not take this wax into his possession; rather, as soon as he bought it…
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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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To the city of London, to the complete sage R. Solomon Ayalon, in the year 1697.
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Isaack Luttichuys, The Jewish Community of Prague, Jacob Sasportas
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1697
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Behold, we have before us the head of the rationalists [or “rational theologians”], Maimonides, may his memory be for a blessing. In chapter three of Hilkhot teshuvah [Mishneh Torah, Laws of…
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Saul Levi Mortera
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1636
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This is a short essay on the debate concerning practical halakhic issues that took place between the sages of Safed and those of Jerusalem wherein the sages of Safed saw fit to implement the ruling…
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Levi Ibn Ḥabib
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1538
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When the heads of the holy nation were assembled together—the holy communities here in the village of Magnesia—and they saw that the power of the testimony was dissipated and there was none remaining…
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The Jewish Community of Magnesia (Manisa)
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Magnesia, Ottoman Empire
(Manisa, Turkey)
Date:
1555
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And just as a person finds pleasant only such food as he has prepared himself, in accordance with what he wishes to eat, and has no desire whatsoever to depend upon his neighbor’s table, so too, he…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Friedberg, Germany)
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Mid–16th Century
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We the undersigned have taken it upon ourselves to be in one society, to serve the Lord, may He be blessed, and to busy ourselves with His Torah day and night, in accordance with that which our…
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Students of Isaac Luria
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1575