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And so it was in the days of the Judge of judges; and so it was, a famine in the land. And a man went out from Bethlehem in Judah to live in the field of Moab, he and his wife and his two sons. (Ruth…
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David ben Aaron Ibn Ḥasin
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16th Century
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To our fruit of holiness enwrapped in praise, our man of deeds rich in accomplishment, the exalted prince and honored rabbi. May your light shine like the rising sun, blossom like the flowers! May an…
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Nathan of Gaza
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Gaza, Ottoman Empire
(Gaza, Palestine)
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1666
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I propose to set forth the faith of our ancestors—our prophets, our sages—forgotten by us these thousand years, because of the long duration of our exile. This faith was known to the Tannaim and most…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
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Tripoli, Ottoman Empire
(Tripoli, Lebanon)
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ca. 1670–1672
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If I have come to relate and tell, divulging the entire mystery of the Garden of Eden and the matters residing within it, of the species of trees, a book could…
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Joseph Taitatsak
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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Early 16th Century
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The superiority of this science was related in the Zohar at the end of the ‘Idra in section Naso.
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Rabbi Simeon cried, raised his voice, and said:
“Woe.” With these words which are…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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Freud says that primal anxiety was toxic, and that the primal limitation was of inspiration. If the anxiety of influence be imaged as a lack of breathing space, then the voluntary limitation that…
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Harold Bloom
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New Haven, United States of America
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1975