Traveler’s Amulet
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. . . that we and all Israel be [one] band [in all] months and all festivals. This custom has been followed by our fathers and by the yeshivot until now, which is the year 1147 of the Seleucid era…
Letter to His Disciples about the Calendar Controversy (I)
To the three vine-shoots (Genesis 40:12), flowing-out rivers [cf. Isaiah 30:25], longing for blessings, peaceful in conduct, spread out in a circle like the thickness of two disks, and delights more…
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Letter to His Disciples about the Calendar Controversy (II)
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Letter to the Jews of Egypt
Blessed are the just, blessed are the pious, blessed are those who pay good for good to the Lord, and good for evil to men.
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