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A King had many natural sons, whom he handed over to lords and princes, his vassals, to rear and feed, and he had another legitimate son whom he greatly loved, and brought him up with him in his…
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Josua da Silva
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London, Kingdom of England (London, United Kingdom)
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1670–1679
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But when we live in houses of hewn stone…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Metz, Kingdom of France (Metz, France)
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1744
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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)
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1714
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The Lord to the prophet Ezekiel (may he rest in peace): you, son of man, show the House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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[ . . . ] And all the more so with our brethren the people of Israel who come from the lands of the dispersion, who do not know and have not seen the way in which every person called by the name of…
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Samuel Aboab
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1650
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I wrote and compiled bit by bit, here a little, there a little (Isaiah 28:10), that which I was able to understand. Some of these provide an explanation of verses by analyzing their words themselves…
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Ḥayim Atar
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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First Half of the 18th Century
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“Moses received the Torah from Sinai” [m. Avot 1:1]:
R. [Ovadiah] from Bartenura has explained this to mean “from the One revealed at Sinai.” And there, when God revealed Himself at Sinai, Moses…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan, Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1614–1617
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The translated text comes from the frontispiece, pictured here. It was presumably coauthored by Ricchi and the publisher, Solomon Proops.
Commentaries and novellae on the six orders of the Mishnah; a…
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Raphael Immanuel Ricchi
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Gorizia, Holy Roman Empire (Gorizia, Italy)
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1731
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Abortion is not murder, vociferous and repeated claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Abortion cannot be murder in Jewish law, because, as indicated above, murder is one of the three “cardinal” sins…
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David M. Feldman
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New York, United States of America
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1986
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The predictions of an unbridgeable and cataclysmic rupture within the Jewish community agitate all of us who love and care for and worry about our Jewish people and its future. The twin issues of…
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Norman Lamm
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1986