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Sivan, 5529 Livorno [1769]
In the name of G-d, the G-d of mercy!
In such measure as light exceeds darkness, such is the superiority of the people of this country over the people of Spain…
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Isaac Euchel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1790
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[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
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David Attias
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire (Livorno, Italy)
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1778
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I have realized, and my attention has been drawn to the fact that many people say that the salvation of women is not on the same level as that of men, for their [women’s] knowledge is limited. They…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
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ca. 1550
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As it is written in the Zohar, Shelakh lekha: Women are privileged to merit the joy of the righteous who do the work of the Lord. They establish merit for their portion among the righteous. Men and…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Simon Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1703
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In summary, man was created not for his state in this world, but for his state in the world-to-come. His state in this world, however, serves as the means toward [attaining] his state in the world-to…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1738
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Third Part of the Ethics on the Origins and Nature of the Affects
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Baruch Spinoza
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1675
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As the first and most beautiful relationship in which woman is undeniably necessary to man—the object of his first affections, to whom he owes all of cherishing, happiness, and health, from infancy to…
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Grace Aguilar
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Brighton, United Kingdom
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1844
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It is written: All the men of Israel . . . knit together as one man (Judg. 20:11). Just as one man is composed of many limbs, and when they become separated it affects the heart…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Liozna, Russian Empire (Lyozna, Belarus)
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Late 18th–early 19th century