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Schwerin, 18 May 1772
15 Iyar 5532 to the Jewish counting
To the man possessed of abundant dominion, wisdom, and understanding, renowned for his knowledge, whose name is spoken of in the far-flung…
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Rabbis of Schwerin
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Schwerin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Schwerin, Germany)
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1772
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Our dear brethren, Children of Israel, perhaps the time has now come to repair the breaches in our ranks; let us return to uphold the Torah of the Almighty with all our strength. Who will be the…
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Ḥayim of Volozhin
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Volozhin, Russian Empire
(Valozhyn, Belarus)
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1803
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Resolved, by the French deputies professing the religion of Moses, that the following Declaration shall precede the answers returned to the questions proposed by the Commissioners of His…
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Grand Sanhedrin (France)
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Paris, French Empire
(Paris, France)
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1807
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Question: Reuven has a single daughter, soft and delicate, whom he married to Ḥanokh ben Judah with a dowry of a thousand sultanish. The bride is twelve years old, and in her father’s home she was…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
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Regarding those who fight one another inside the synagogue over the seats which each one has designated for himself, as when one is late in arriving and finds that another person is sitting in his…
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Jacob Huli
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1732
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This disunity among us, the lack of piousness for one another, the civil war of murmurings in places where conversations and visits occur, evils that have caused the past and…
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
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1723
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In the main portion of this work I spoke of the use of an electric light. Here I shall discuss the law of whether one is permitted to speak on Shabbat by means of a machine called a “telephone.”…
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Yitsḥak Shmelkes
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Peremyshliany, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Peremyshliany, Ukraine)
Date:
1888
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In times of emergency, all types of kitniyot (legumes, pulses) may certainly be permitted to be eaten during Passover, for even our Master, the Ba‘al Ha-Turim [Rabbenu Jacob, son of Asher]…
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Jacob Emden
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
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1761
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6. “It is proper,” etc. The phraseology employed by the Tur is “And one should cover one’s head so that one should not be in a state of bareheadedness”—this is taken from the words of the Ba‘al ha-…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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ca. 1803
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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