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For a half-millennium the Jew, rejected by the world, had secluded himself within ghetto walls, unconcerned with what lay without. But the day came when the world…
And the following are the local kings whom Joshua and the Israelites defeated on the west side of the Jordan—from Baal-gad in the Valley of the Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends to Seir—which…
The earth shudders at three things,
At four which it cannot bear:
A slave who becomes king;
A scoundrel sated with food;
A loathsome woman who gets married;
A slave-girl who supplants her…
There was once a little city with few Jewish inhabitants, roughly twenty households, the name [of the city] being Ragusa; and it was self-governing. Now it transpired that in the year 5383 [1622], on…
[1742] In the week when we read the portion Toledoth of the Pentateuch a proclamation was issued by the…
Adam, Seth, Enosh; Kenan, Mahalalel, Jared; Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech; Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The sons…
This is the line of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s slave, bore to Abraham. These are the names of the sons of Ishmael, by their names, in the order of their birth…
This is the line of Esau—that is, Edom.
Esau took his wives from among the Canaanite women—Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Ohol-ibamah daughter of Anah daughter of Zibeon the Hiv-ite—and…
Nevertheless, I saw from the first that many people would open their mouths wide against me [see Psalms 22:14] and speak arrogantly against me and think it a sin on my part for my having written based…
These are the lines of Shem, Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah: sons were born to them after the Flood.
The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras. The…