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That which God puts in my mouth I shall express (Numbers 22:38) in succinct and easy language, so that it will be simple for the discerning to grasp. And my purpose is to inform everyone to whom this…
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Johannes Alexander Böner, Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1646
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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
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Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1967
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These are the words of the insignificant man, Joseph Karo, son of the great R. Ephraim, son of the great R. Joseph Karo, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come.
I shall…
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Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1563