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The study program of a Torah scholar should follow roughly this order: the Bible, as mentioned above, and the entirety of the Mishnah, as stated above. He should even complete the Orders of the…
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Jonah Landsofer
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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Beginning of the 18th Century
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First, we will describe how to travel from one’s land to Israel. There are many ways by which one can travel. One route is from Venice and another is from the city of Ofen [Budapest], but there is no…
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Gershon ha-Levi of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1634/35
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Nathan ben Samson of Meseritsch
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Gross Meseritsch, Holy Roman Empire
(Velké Meziříčí, Czech Republic)
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1728
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Now we have already informed all those present of the main point: we have come to inform and announce and make known to His Excellency, because this is the custom, what it is his duty toward us. For…
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1640
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The incident was as follows: A woman came before me from a backwater Jewish town weeping bitterly over the sins of her youth, as she had been unfaithful to her first husband before she married her…
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Unknown
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Nikolsburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1689
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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And this, too, must be said, that the main reason for establishing the days of Hanukkah is because they [the Jews] were victorious over the Greeks. However, it did not appear that the victory was…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1600
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For I heard slander, fear was on every side [see Psalms 31:14], as the son of the despised maidservant slanders the son of the mistress, saying, “Those miserable Jews, they had a single language from…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1579
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To be given to my dearly beloved and pleasant son-in-law—who fears sin and all whose deeds are worthy—the respected Mr. Falk.
He who delivers this letter, on him be blessing.
From the holy community…
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Barukh Reiniger
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1619
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“R. Isaac said, etc.” In Genesis Rabbah it says: “Even though there is not a single superfluous narrative in the Torah—not even ‘the sister of Lotan was Timna’”—for it says in Sanhedrin Chapter ḥelek…
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Judah Loew
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1578