The Book of Lights and Watchtowers: On the Sabbath and the Hebrew Language
Chapter 35
On Reading Any Non-Hebrew Script on the Sabbath Day
1. This also is among the things which a group of our co-religionists1 has forbidden, without firm proof. With regard to that [prohibition] I say: The words and nouns have actually been formed in order to indicate notions, which are notions of things, and in order to serve as means by…
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