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To the remnant whom Hashem calls Guardians of the Torah and Doers of His Word. May the Lord our God be with them and may they rise higher and higher
our brethren guardians of the faith of israel!
Ou…
The following incident occurred: On the holy Sabbath of ḥol ha-mo‘ed Passover in the year 5335 [1575], many virtuous individuals from the Lisbon congregation arose and came to an agreement among…
To the city of London, to the complete sage R. Solomon Ayalon, in the year 1697.
Behold, we have before us the head of the rationalists [or “rational theologians”], Maimonides, may his memory be for a blessing. In chapter three of Hilkhot teshuvah [Mishneh Torah, Laws of…
A member of the Greek Church once addressed me in the following words:—“Do you know wherefore you have no longer a king of your own people? It is because you have rejected the faith of…
In this chapter, the prophet speaks mainly of life and spiritual death, and your scholars concede this, as is seen in Nicolão de Lira’s exposition on the same chapter. And thus, you await greater…
I am very much astonished at all the writers who have argued with the wise men of the Christians, and who have recorded their arguments in books. I have not found within them a decisive…
The ten halakhic questions raised by a certain individual directed against the Oral Law, and several of the commentaries upon it, have reached us. I have not needed to carry out a great deal of…
Genesis 1:26. Let us make man in our image, as our likeness.
Genesis 9:6. For in the image of God made he man.
Deuteronomy 4:15. And guard ye your souls greatly, for ye saw no manner of…
Precisely in the case of a new and difficult question like “Jewish folk-music,” [ . . . ] it is necessary to establish as much as possible [its] specific, objective characteristics . . . You make fun…