Resurrected Clothing?
Rabbi’s teaching was: A person does not return just as they left. The other rabbis’ was: A person returns just as they left.
Translated by Dov Weiss and Jenny R. Labendz.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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