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Commentary on Sotah: On the Education of Girls
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4] The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…

Contributor:

Chofetz Chaim

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Education, Women, Oral Torah, Piety, Sin

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology
Ethical Will
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The study program of a Torah scholar should follow roughly this order: the Bible, as mentioned above, and the entirety of the Mishnah, as stated above. He should even complete the Orders of the…

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Jonah Landsofer

Places:

Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)

Date:

Beginning of the 18th Century

Subjects:

Torah study, Scholarship, Talmud, Oral Torah, Education

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & Philosophy, Ethics
Lev avot (Heart of the Fathers)
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Simeon ben Shetaḥ would say: You should cross-examine the witnesses extensively, and take care with your words, lest they learn how to lie from them [m. Avot 1:9]. Solomon ha-Levi explained: The…

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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1553

Subjects:

Torah study, Oral Torah, Education

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Rabbinic Commentary