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They distort the words of the living God. It is a clear Torah lesson, as the sages have taught: “Whosoever speculates on four things, a pity for him! He is as though he had not come into the world.”
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Contributor:
Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
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“I, too, have authority, the authority of the Lord, blessed be He, of the Shekinah and all the members of the Heavenly Academy.”
[Padua, 16 March 1730]
Oh, thou great Prince, lofty pillar, Gaon R…
Contributor:
Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
Places:
Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1730
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Throughout the tribes of Israel, we faithfully made it known how the holy and wise Nathan of Gaza came here to our camp. He said that he was a prophet, bringing news of the coming of the Redeemer and…
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Samuel Aboab
Places:
Ipsala, Ottoman Empire (Ipsala, Turkey)
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ca. 1694
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And they permitted themselves to place a blemish in the holiness of heaven and the holiness of the study of the holy Torah, to place the filth of the primeval serpent, behaving according to their…
Contributor:
Moses Ḥagiz
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714