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Kol sakhal (Voice of a Fool), a polemical work attacking rabbinic Judaism, has been the subject of many scholarly debates. To this day, its composition and aims remain shrouded in mystery. The author…
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Unknown
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
before 1622
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“Moses received the Torah from Sinai” [m. Avot 1:1]:
R. [Ovadiah] from Bartenura has explained this to mean “from the One revealed at Sinai.” And there, when God revealed Himself at Sinai, Moses…
Contributor:
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1614–1617
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Moses received the Torah from Sinai and transmitted it to Joshua; Joshua to the elders; the elders to the prophets; and the prophets transmitted it to the men of the Great Assembly. They said three…
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Ovadiah of Bartenura
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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The sixth well contains mighty waters, ascending ever higher and prevailing, covering hills and mountain peaks, and turning into a stream breaking forth and flowing on all sides—a…
Contributor:
Judah Loew
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1598