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And if one were to ask: why is it that in our generation—and even in the time of the Ari of blessed memory (who successfully revealed many higher secrets)—neither fire nor angels appear, as they did…
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Nehemiah Ḥiya Ḥayun
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Berlin, Holy Roman Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1713
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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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In this way God sought to clarify, test, and verify the lesson which I wrote that the Torah is the essence of all entities, in two respects. First, in the previous sermon I wrote that God…
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Isaac Adarbi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1586
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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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Habsburg Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1575
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Earlier on we have clearly shown that the animal soul does not consist of blood and how much less so the human soul, since the latter is an incorporeal substance, invisible and incorruptible, whereas…
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Samuel da Silva
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1623
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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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Unknown
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
before 1622
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The peace of the Almighty God be with you and with all those who in their faith hope for and desire His grace and mercy.
Dear and good friends and brethren of Israel.
In your letter, you complain…
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Gershom Katz, Ḥayyim Schwarz, Josel of Rosheim
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Holy Roman Empire (Alsace, France)
Date:
1539
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King Solomon (may he rest in peace) said: The righteous man walketh in his integrity [Proverbs 20:7]. Now this means that a man should follow God’s…
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Jacob Ashkenazi of Janov
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Janov, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Janów Lubelski, Poland)
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Early 17th Century
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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
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Abraham Portaleone
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1611
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The fiercest of all the conflicts between Pharisee and Sadducee concerned the doctrine of the resurrection, for in it the class conflict was most…
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Louis Finkelstein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938