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The tour of inspection on which I invited you to accompany me during this course has come to an end. We must now retrace our steps and review the results achieved by our tour…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1934
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Thus there are two kinds of truths, equally ascertained, and therefore equally admissible; the one proceeding from intellect and called rational truth, the other formed in the heart, and called moral…
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Isaac Samuel Reggio
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Gorizia, Austrian Empire (Gorizia, Italy)
Date:
1853
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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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On the Messiah and his circumstances, whether or not he has come.
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Sébastien Leclerc, Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1645
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Now it is not my intention to be a wiseacre when I show people that some rabbinic statements should not be taken literally. Belonging to this genre, is the story of Og uprooting a mountain the size of…
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Azariah de’ Rossi
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1573–1575
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto to the prince and magnate, chieftain and nobleman, our teacher R. Menaḥem Azariah de Fano—may his Rock and Redeemer preserve him—greetings to his glorious excellency!
Beh…
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Abraham Menaḥem Kohen Porto
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Cremona, Spanish Empire (Cremona, Italy)
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ca. 1574
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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)
Date:
1731
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[ . . . ] Philo: I have already told you that the cognition of the generating nature is meant to direct them towards their natural perfection, without any other…
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Judah Abravanel
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1512
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A statement of reproof and a reminder and warning and a correction to our brothers, the Jews of Tunis, may the Almighty maintain it, amen, may God preserve them and sustain them, written by the dayyan…
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Yehuda Jarmon
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Tunis, French Protectorate of Tunisia (Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1886