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Now in regard to your inquiry as to my view on the question of the halakhic status of the odor of leavened substances on Passover, as there are some authorities who maintain that odor is…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1793
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In the year 1803, on Sunday afternoon the 5th of June, I and my uncle, accompanied—from the town gate onwards—by a soldier, arrived at the bet midrash, located at the Zimmerhofe. The soldier left us…
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Leopold Zunz
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
Mid–19th century
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The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
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David Friedländer
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1779
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A dialogue in the land of the living between our teacher, R. Moses Maimonides, the Spaniard, and our Teacher Moses, son of Menaḥem [Mendelssohn] of Dessau, and an anonymous third person.
On the day of…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1794–1797
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Rabbi Yose said: I was once traveling on a road, and I entered one of the ruins of Jerusalem to pray. Elijah [the prophet], who is remembered for good, came and waited for me at the entrance [of the…
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Jacob Ibn ḥabib
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1516