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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
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[Question:] A certain gentleman, a close and trusted friend, a Torah scholar who had read scripture, learned Mishnah, and ministered to many learned talmudic scholars, invited me to come to the holy…
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Jacobus Houbraken, Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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I wrote and compiled bit by bit, here a little, there a little (Isaiah 28:10), that which I was able to understand. Some of these provide an explanation of verses by analyzing their words themselves…
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ḥayim Atar
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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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
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1516
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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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Are we who are in this exile the people of Israel, that is, the worshipers of the God of Israel . . . essentially . . . or in . . . name only? . . . For it seems to me that we are not the people of…
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Eliezer Eilburg
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Cincinnati, Habsburg Empire
(Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1575
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Kol sakhal (Voice of a Fool), a polemical work attacking rabbinic Judaism, has been the subject of many scholarly debates. To this day, its composition and aims remain shrouded in mystery. The author…
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Anonymous
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
before 1622
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It is known that our teacher and rabbi, the gaon, exemplar of his generation, the rabbi and teacher Judah bar Bezalel, who is known as R. Loew of Prague, of blessed memory, in several places in his…
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Jacob Horowitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1622
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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
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1697
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Says Moses, son to my Master, my father, R. Israel—may the memory of the righteous be for a blessing for the world to come—seeing that the illustrious author [Joseph Karo] of the Bet Yosef [Th…
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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1570