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Toldot Ya‘akov Yosef (The Offshoots of Jacob Joseph)
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I heard from the venerable rabbinic scholar, R. Nahman, an interpretation of the words of [the Besht] that one should intend in every word that he utters submissiveness…

Contributor:

Jacob Joseph of Polnoye

Places:

Polonnoye, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polonne, Ukraine)

Date:

1780

Subjects:

Hasidism, Bible, Piety, Ethics

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Biblical Commentary
Jephthah Sacrifices His Daughter
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When Jephthah set out for the road He did so full of happiness and joy. He had a daughter, a solitary cypress, Her visage fairyborn; two…

Contributor:

Aaron ben Mashiaḥ

Places:

Isfahan, Ottoman Empire (Isfahan, Iran)

Date:

1692

Subjects:

Bible, Sacrifice, Parenthood, Ethics, Adolescence

Categories:

Literature, Biblical Poetry, Poetry