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This is the statute of the Torah . . . זאת חקת התורה—It should say זאת חקת הפרה (“this is the statute of the heifer”), as it says elsewhere “this is the statute of the Passover” (Exodus 12:43)! And if…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1610
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A member of the Greek Church, once addressed me in the following words:—“Do you know wherefore you have no longer a king of your own people? It is because you have rejected the faith of…
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Isaac Troki
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1593
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One who exchanges good for bad and bad for good, and says that transgressions are really virtuous deeds, and that it is by this means that one can bring the Will of the Creator to fruition—such an…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1760
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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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Earlier on we have clearly shown that the animal soul does not consist of blood and how much less so the human soul, since the latter is an incorporeal substance, invisible and incorruptible, whereas…
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Samuel da Silva
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1623
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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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Avot 5:6: Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight: The mouth of the earth, the mouth of the well, the mouth of [Balaam’s] ass, the rainbow, the manna, the rod, the shamir-worm…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1589
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Wisdom rests quietly in a wise man (Proverbs 14:33); nothing which he purposes to do will be withheld from him [see Job 42:2]. I envisioned a man who was diligent in his labor, who was as bright as…
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Unknown
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Frankfurt- Oder, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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End of the 17th Century
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This is therefore followed by a question: since it is so that we are still slaves, why is this night of Egyptian exile different from all the other nights of exile under other kingdoms? Why all this…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1782
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I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…
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David Abenatar Melo
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1626