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Kore’ ha-dorot (Reader for the Generations)
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And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…

Contributor:

David Conforte

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

1678

Subjects:

Rabbis, Yeshiva, Education, Charity, Kabbalah

Categories:

History, Historical Writing, Firsthand Accounts
A Ruling on the Printing of the Zohar
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The earth made noise as did the heavens, and the doorposts are shaking at the voice crying out that it would be wrong to publish hidden and sealed materials and to break through the fence established…

Contributor:

Isaac de Lattes

Places:

Pesaro, Duchy of Urbino (Pesaro, Italy)

Date:

1558

Subjects:

Mysticism, Kabbalah, Oral Torah, Rabbis, Print

Categories:

Pedagogy & Schooling, Firsthand Accounts