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The aforementioned lights are sufficient to flee from gossip and to shut one’s ears to the gossipmonger and to the talebearer because they are enemies to be greatly feared, which are found in a…
Contributor:
Isaac de Moses de Paz
Places:
Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1734
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King Solomon, of blessed memory, wrote in Proverbs that one ought not to be too pious and one ought not to do too much evil. [The allusion, however, is to Ecclesiastes 7:16–17.] Accordingly, our sages…
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Zvi Hirsch Koidanover
Date:
1705
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I must first briefly describe human nature. Namely, we people contain within us the four fundamental [elements] like all other species of creation that are below us or inferior to us. It…
Contributor:
Matheus Staedlein, Isaac Wetzlar
Places:
(Celle, Germany)
Date:
1749
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It is written: All the men of Israel . . . knit together as one man (Judg. 20:11). Just as one man is composed of many limbs, and when they become separated it affects the heart…
Contributor:
Shneur Zalman of Liady
Places:
Liozna, Russian Empire
(Lyozna, Belarus)
Date:
Late 18th–early 19th century