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Magid mesharim (Speaker of Truth): Lessons from the Magid
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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…

Contributor:

Joseph Karo

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1530s

Subjects:

Mysticism, Conversion, Women, Oral Torah, Torah study, (Auto)biography

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, (Auto)biography
Responsum: On a Wayward Wife
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Question 1: May our teacher and master, the great rabbi, who sits on the throne of halakhic rulings, please instruct and enlighten us regarding an episode that unfolded here in our city of Pisa, may…

Contributor:

Jacob Senior

Places:

Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Pisa, Italy)

Date:

Mid– to Late 17th Century

Subjects:

Conversion, Women, Violence, Life cycle, Marriage, Law, Responsa

Categories:

Law, Responsa