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Having with fervent desire sought to reflect on the meaning of our sacred scriptures according to their original and true meaning—since, being the word of God, in this lies all of…
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Jacob Judah Leon Templo
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1671
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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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Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1719/20
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1711
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Should we not cry and weep that until now our scholars have not concerned themselves to provide us with a 24 [i.e., Bible] in Yiddish, arranged according to the simple meaning of the text, word for…
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Jekutiel Blitz
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1676–1679
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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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Abraham Farrar
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1627