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1502
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Christian Priest:Good morning to the Jews.
Jew:A good morning and a good year to my lord.
Priest:Where are you going today to insult the gentiles?
Jew:I do not understand you.
Priest:Have not you Jews…
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Saul Merari
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1706
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When there came to our notice the work composed and recently published by R. Azariah de’ Rossi, entitled Me‘or ‘enayim, which contains the sections: “The Voice of God,” “The Glory of the Elders,” and…
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Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1574
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The soul of man, Signor Baldassare, is incorruptible, immortal, and divine, created and infused by God into our body when the fetus in the maternal womb was made fit to receive it. This truth is as…
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Sarra Copia Sullam
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1621
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What does this man [who contemplates the giving of the Torah] think that Moses our master, may peace be upon him, sat and did for forty days and forty nights when he stayed with the Lord on…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1623
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Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
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Elio Toaff
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Rome, Italy
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1986
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To the princes and the honored ones, rulers of the people, the members of the charitable association in the ghetto of the holy community of Venice, may their Rock and Redeemer protect those who…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1619
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Eliezer ben Abraham of Pisa
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
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1531
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Moses Pescarol
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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1616
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- Jews hold the Sabbath, above all other feasts, with the greatest veneration on account of it being named so often in the Scripture and being ordered…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1637