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The Zohar, in the portion of Naso on the verse and in the night His song shall be with…
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Aaron Berekhiah of Modena
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1624
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I shall recount the love of God, the faithful God,
I shall study his words, and prostrate myself to the formidable God, the Lord,
I shall walk in his paths, to the central land, my palace.
Happy…
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Amīnā
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Kashan, Safavid Iran (Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1719/20
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These are the generations of Isaac ben ḥayim ben Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac (Genesis 25:19) ben Joseph among the kohanim who trace their family back to Pinehas, son of Eliezer, son of Aaron the…
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Isaac ben Ḥayim ha-Kohen
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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First Half of the 16th Century
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This is both Sinai and the uprooter of mountains, the book Sefer Hatashbeṣ, which was composed by the king, the great eagle, the renowned sage, the grand prince, the light of…
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Meir Crescas
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Europe, Holy Roman Empire (Europe)
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1739
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When the heads of the holy nation were assembled together—the holy communities here in the village of Magnesia—and they saw that the power of the testimony was dissipated and there was none remaining…
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The Jewish Community of Magnesia (Manisa)
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Magnesia, Ottoman Empire (Manisa, Turkey)
Date:
1555
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I had been living in tranquility in my home, refreshed in my sanctuary, my palace, in the holy congregation of Prague for some twenty-eight years after they had chosen me from the assembly to be a…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1645
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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1530s
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For do not interpretations belong to God? There are many kinds of dreams in the world: dreams that are mostly true and close to prophecy, but the sages said that there are no dreams without idle…
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Raphael Mordechai Malki
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Last Quarter of the 17th Century
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We can see that our sages, of blessed memory, likewise declared the Torah a weapon, as it has stood by us, enabling us to emerge triumphant in the wars for our religious and moral existence, in which…
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Yitsḥak Ya‘akov Reines
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Lida, Russian Empire (Lida, Belarus)
Date:
1913