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The Tradition which is called Oral Law is not a true tradition, nor did it originate with the Law.
1. The Tradition called Oral Law is contrary to the Written Law, as will…
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Uriel da Costa
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1623
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I am astonished to see that for reading just the names of the holy books, one receives his reward, as if he had read and studied them all. If so, then one will not make much of an effort to study…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1680
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With a brief commentary and some Tosafot (additions) which were balanced, refined, and written by the Torah scholar, the great rabbi, R. Elijah ben Judah Loeb, who dwells in the land of Fulda, based…
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Elijah Fulda
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Fulda, Holy Roman Empire
(Fulda, Germany)
Date:
1710
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Rejoice, be glad, confraternity Talmud Torah,
You crown of beauty, tiara of splendor.
O Holy One of Israel enthroned on Israel’s praises,
With musical voices we praise Your name.
With…
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Joseph Shalom Gallego
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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Now we come to the clarification of the mishnah: “One may not expound upon forbidden sexual relations to three people”—and the Gemara explains that this is referring to the concealed aspects of…
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Eleazar Rokeaḥ
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1740
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Let the elders rejoice and the discerning be glad, the students and rabbis be happy, and the princes and the officers, and the wealthy and the needy exult, with the poor and those lacking sustenance…
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Judah Leyb Zelichover
Places:
Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1697
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The translated text comes from the frontispiece, pictured here. It was presumably coauthored by Ricchi and the publisher, Solomon Proops.
Commentaries and novellae on the six orders of the Mishnah; a…
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Raphael Immanuel Ricchi
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Gorizia, Holy Roman Empire
(Gorizia, Italy)
Date:
1731
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They distort the words of the living God. It is a clear Torah lesson, as the sages have taught: “Whosoever speculates on four things, a pity for him! He is as though he had not come into the world.”
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Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714