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Human follies, silver and gold and possessions,
Last only shortly on earth, and like flies, they fly away.
Wealth flowers like abundant grain, or like a tree’s boughs,
It bears recognizable fruit…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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One who uses the Ineffable Name in this world will have a great punishment, and the reason for this is that he mentions holy letters in impurity, and combines that which is holy with that which is…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1549
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This essay, written after Roe v. Wade, during a time of rising abortion polarization, offers a Jewish legal perspective that shaped national discussions.
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David M. Feldman
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1986
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This rabbinic responsum, a “response” to a question of Jewish law, addresses the issue of marital deception and its legal ramifications.
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Joel Sirkes
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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First Half of the 17th Century
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Come my beloved,
let us go into the open;
Let us lodge among the henna shrubs.
Let us go early to the vineyards;
Let us see if the vine has flowered,
If its blossoms have…
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Aryeh Ben-Gurion, Gad Ullman
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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In this way God sought to clarify, test, and verify the lesson which I wrote that the Torah is the essence of all entities, in two respects. First, in the previous sermon I wrote that God…
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Isaac Adarbi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
Before 1584
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If you prostrate yourself over the graves of the righteous, you need to have the proper intention, so that through your prostration, you will cause the soul of that righteous person to…
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Isaac Luria
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt (Oder), Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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1831
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Artist Unknown
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1910
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Artist Unknown
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1548