Showing Results 1 - 4 of 4
Restricted
Text
The superiority of this science was related in the Zohar at the end of the ‘Idra in section Naso.
It was taught:
Rabbi Simeon cried, raised his voice, and said:
“Woe.” With these words which are…
Contributor:
Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Indeed, in the countries where we reside, where the gentile women walk about bareheaded, but our mothers did not go out like that and were most careful on that score, concerned as they were about…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1839
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I have always regretted one thing. When I ponder the Hebrew literature of all periods I ask myself: Why is it that our forefathers, who spent so much time on the study of matters of religion and law…
Contributor:
Simon Dubnov
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1891
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I cannot refrain from relating an amazing, true story that I heard from that mouth of sanctity, the most outstanding disciple of our Holy Master, the rebbe, my dear friend—may…
Contributor:
Israel ben Samuel of Shklov
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1836