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The Rambam [Maimonides] wrote: The reason why the laws of women precede the laws of damages is in keeping with the order of the verses, as it is stated: If a man sell his daughter as a maidservant…
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Jacob Ḥagiz
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1645
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The gravestone of Judah Loew (1520–1609; known as the Maharal) and his wife, Pearl (1528–1610), is located in the Old Jewish Cemetery of the Jewish quarter in Prague. A prominent scholar and kabbalist…
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1609 and 1640
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Do you deem me to be hard and evil-hearted in that I should hasten to do a match during my period of mourning? Am I to forget the love of the wife of my youth, my pure dove, whom God graciously gave…
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Akiva Eger
Places:
Märkisch Friedland, Kingdom of Prussia
(Mirosławiec, Poland)
Date:
1796