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Thus saith the humble Jacob ben Chajim ben Isaac Ibn Adonijah: “He entereth in peace, where the righteous rest upon their couches, who walked in uprightness.”
Praised be the Creator, who exists and…
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Jacob Ibn Adoniyahu
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1525
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The introduction to the first volume of this work, which you already have, explains that one must know what mitzvot God commanded us to perform, and what he obliged us to avoid, to find…
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Me’am Lo’ez
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1764
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From the day that God confused all the languages of the land [see Genesis 11:9], through the bitter and rapid exile of the expulsion from Spain, since then all good things have ended for us; our glory…
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Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1505/6
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One day, I was reading a certain book, which contained eight commentaries on the Song of Songs. More precious than pearls they are; all of their commentaries are sapphires, the words of the living God…
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Isaac ‘Akrish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1575–1578
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The great value of prayer is well known. It is formulated in the Torah, the Prophets, and the Writings, and explained further in the words of our rabbis of blessed memory. It is called the service of…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1617
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“That which is well known needs no proof,” and the root cause is the skilled operating of the printing shop in the holy community of Żółkiew [Zhovkva], may the Rock preserve it, which was established…
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The Council of the Four Lands
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Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1699
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The present commentary on Leviticus is based on my lectures on Leviticus given at the Rabbinical Seminary in Berlin in 1873/4 and 1876/7. This fact explains the approach and the economy of my…
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David Tsvi Hoffmann
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1904
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I am astonished to see that for reading just the names of the holy books, one receives his reward, as if he had read and studied them all. If so, then one will not make much of an effort to study…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1680
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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
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1655, 1667, 1679
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The masterpiece of eighteenth-century Ladino literature is the encyclopedic commentary on the Bible, Me‘am lo‘ez (From a People of Foreign Tongue), by Jacob Huli, the first volume of which was…
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Jacob Huli
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730