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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…

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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
The Jews in Our Time
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They [the hasidim] study Kabbalah and Talmud diligently and successfully, and consequently they have among them excellent Talmud scholars. They also comprise three groups, each of them under one chief…

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Bonaventura Mayer

Places:

Regensburg, German Confederation (Regensburg, Germany)

Date:

1842

Subjects:

Talmud, Rabbis, Halakhah, Hasidism, Justice system

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing
Rabbinic Reports on Circumcision
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Altona, 24 Ab 5603 Chief Rabbi! Messrs. Adler and Fuld, members of your congregation, asked for my opinion, from the Jewish-religious perspective…

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Jacob Ettlinger

Places:

Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1844

Subjects:

Talmud, Halakhah, Circumcision, Theology

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Theology, Religion & Theology
My First Lessons in Wolfenbüttel
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In the year 1803, on Sunday afternoon the 5th of June, I and my uncle, accompanied—from the town gate onwards—by a soldier, arrived at the bet midrash, located at the Zimmerhofe. The soldier left us…

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Leopold Zunz

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

Mid–19th century

Subjects:

Education, Adolescence, Talmud, Bet Midrash

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Memoirs & Diaries