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Vikuaḥ mayim ḥayim (Dispute of “Living Waters”)
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And just as a person finds pleasant only such food as he has prepared himself, in accordance with what he wishes to eat, and has no desire whatsoever to depend upon his neighbor’s table, so too, he…

Contributor:

Ḥayim ben Bezalel

Places:

Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire (Friedberg, Germany)

Date:

Mid–16th Century

Subjects:

Halakhah, Talmud, Oral Torah, Food and drink, Rabbis

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes, Firsthand Accounts
Me’irat ‘enayim (Light of the Eyes)
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Lo! I, the insignificant Joshua Falk, son of my Master, my father, the honorable R. Alexander ha-Kohen of blessed memory, was once young and am now aged (Psalms 37:25), and all my life I grew up among…

Contributor:

Joshua Falk

Places:

Lvov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lviv, Ukraine)

Date:

1606

Subjects:

Halakhah, Talmud, Oral Torah, Justice system, Rabbis

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes, Firsthand Accounts