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Documentos para todo estado e ydade, e em particular para abituar bem os moços desde sua moçidade â vertude (Documents for Every State and Age, and in Particular to Accustom Young Men from Their Youth to Virtue)
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 Turn from evil and do good. Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…

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Isaac de Matatia Aboab

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1685

Subjects:

Family, Children, Life cycle, Charity, Oral Torah, Ethics, Law, Wills & testaments

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Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & philosophy, Ethics
Ethical Will
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The study program of a Torah scholar should follow roughly this order: the Bible, as mentioned above, and the entirety of the Mishnah, as stated above. He should even complete the Orders of the…

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Jonah Landsofer

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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

Beginning of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Torah study, Scholarship, Talmud, Oral Torah, Education, Ethics, Law, Wills & testaments

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Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & philosophy, Ethics
Ethical Will
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It is known that our teacher and rabbi, the gaon, exemplar of his generation, the rabbi and teacher Judah bar Bezalel, who is known as R. Loew of Prague, of blessed memory, in several places in his…

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Jacob Horowitz

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

ca. 1622

Subjects:

Torah study, Talmud, Prophets & prophecy, Oral Torah, Ritual & observance, Ethics, Law, Wills & testaments

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Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & philosophy, Ethics