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Moses ben Elijah Gallena
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Crete, Republic of Venice
(Crete, Greece)
Date:
1715
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A book titled in Ladino Obligasyon de los korazones [Duty of the Hearts] because it is translated from a text written by the pious gaon, our master Baḥya the judge, of blessed…
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Iehudah Machabeu
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
16th Century
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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
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Don’t overshadow anyone. Know that you have an obligation to observe 613 commandments, because many of them you have to perform, but they can be done conjointly; so that when one commandment is…
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Moses ben Gershon Parenzo, Abraham Farrar
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1627
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Abraham Ibn Ezra
Places:
Córdoba, Spanish Empire
(Córdoba, Spain)
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18th Century
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And thus was finished the book Petah Debarai
In the name of the living God my redeemer and rock
In the year of the creation 306
On the 29th day of Tishri
Edited by the Hebrew grammarian
Elijah the…
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Cornelio Adelkind
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1546
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso, Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1719/20
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Kovno, Thursday, 20 Heshvan 5629 [5 November 1868]
His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
My dear esteemed gentleman! While I was still in Suwalki…
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Miriam Markel-Mosessohn
Places:
Kovno, Russian Empire
(Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1868
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The first “finger” is called Or Torah (The Light of Torah), as it consists of my notes on the Torah. Now, these notes will be useful for all people, but will provide their fullest benefit only to…
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Menaḥem di Lonzano
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1618
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“That which is well known needs no proof,” and the root cause is the skilled operating of the printing shop in the holy community of Żółkiew [Zhovkva], may the Rock preserve it, which was established…
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The Council of the Four Lands
Places:
Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1699