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Documentos para todo estado e ydade, e em particular para abituar bem os moços desde sua moçidade â vertude (Documents for Every State and Age, and in Particular to Accustom Young Men from Their Youth to Virtue)
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 Turn from evil and do good. Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…

Contributor:

Isaac de Matatia Aboab

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1685

Subjects:

Family, Children, Life cycle, Charity, Oral Torah

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Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & Philosophy, Ethics
Yesh noḥalin (Some Inherit)
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Again, I caution you: when you go to some feast in celebration of the performance of a mitzvah, do not focus only on eating and drinking. Rather, you should first ask some sort of praiseworthy…

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Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

ca. 1660

Subjects:

Ethics, Food and drink, Life cycle, Polemics, Women

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & Philosophy, Ethics