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Indeed, in the countries where we reside, where the gentile women walk about bareheaded, but our mothers did not go out like that and were most careful on that score, concerned as they were about…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1839
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This preface represents not a collated anthology but is rather the result of forgetfulness on my part, insofar as I have been terse in the words I have written, which place on record that…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1775
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In my opinion, there is no person in this world, whether he is a sage or a…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1612
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The reason for this is that if they see Torah scholars, and those who repair the breaches in Jewish religious practice, voiding the Torah in accordance with the exigencies of time and place, they will…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1810
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And likewise I say: Whoever mingles teachings of Kabbalah with rulings of halakhah is liable for kilayim—sowing a forbidden mixture of seeds, “Lest the fullness of the seed you have sown be forfeited”…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1835