Showing Results 1 - 4 of 4
Public Access
Text
And likewise I say: Whoever mingles teachings of Kabbalah with rulings of halakhah is liable for kilayim—sowing a forbidden mixture of seeds, “Lest the fullness of the seed you have sown be forfeited”…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1835
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The reason for this is that if they see Torah scholars, and those who repair the breaches in Jewish religious practice, voiding the Torah in accordance with the exigencies of time and place, they will…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1810
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
And now, you, my brethren, my people of holy communities in all the places you live, for several years I have been unable to send you reproaches and words of ethics and righteousness. . . . And since…
Contributor:
Samuel ha-Levi Barazani
Places:
Barazan, Ottoman Empire (Barazan, Iran)
Date:
17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
When I parted from my father and journeyed forth from his home to Brody, I joined up with friends, God-fearing men of purity; we built a bet midrash for…
Contributor:
Ezekiel Landau
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1776