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Simeon ben Shetaḥ would say: You should cross-examine the witnesses extensively, and take care with your words, lest they learn how to lie from them [m. Avot 1:9].
Solomon ha-Levi explained: The…
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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1553
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The study program of a Torah scholar should follow roughly this order: the Bible, as mentioned above, and the entirety of the Mishnah, as stated above. He should even complete the Orders of the…
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Jonah Landsofer
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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The earth made noise as did the heavens, and the doorposts are shaking at the voice crying out that it would be wrong to publish hidden and sealed materials and to break through the fence established…
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Isaac de Lattes
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Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino (Pesaro, Italy)
Date:
1558
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4]
The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…
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Chofetz Chaim
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1918