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Sunday, 1st Tammuz, 5426
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Jacob Tausk
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1666
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I have examined the matter carefully, to see whether I should uphold that which they have already done, in nullifying the custom [of reciting the priestly blessing after dark, during the Ne…
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Jacob Ulma, Isaac Lampronti
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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1715
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The great work called Mishneh Torah by the rabbi, our master, Moses ben Maimon of blessed memory, comprises fourteen books.
Were it not that the Lord was with us (Psalms 124:1), the Torah might have…
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Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
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1509
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1719/20
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The three problems that I first asked are explained in regard to all of that which I have said. The first: Why is it called the “Holy Land” and the “Holy Temple”? This is according to the fact that it…
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Isaac Karo
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Beginning of the 16th Century
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By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century
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However, in our many sins, she is Zion, there is none who cares for her (Jeremiah 30:17). Consider the question you asked, speaking like an enemy without knowledge [see Job 34:34]. For it follows the…
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Moses Ḥagiz
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1707
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2000–1200 BCE
Traditional Dates of Patriarchs and Sojourn in Egypt
1200 BCE
Settlement in Canaan
1200–1025 BCE
Chieftains (“Judges”) and Tribal Rule
1025–928 BCE
United Monarchy of Israel…
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This is the secret of the teaching of the sages: “When the Holy One, blessed be He, created the world with the attribute of justice, and the world could not subsist—and so too with the attribute of…
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Solomon Ayllon
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London, England (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1699
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Thus said Abraham the son of Samuel the son of Abraham Zacuto, may his memory be for the world to come. [ . . . ] [T]o bring merit upon myself and others, I was motivated to write this…
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Abraham Zacuto
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Salamanca, Spanish Empire (Salamanca, Spain)
Beja, Portuguese Empire (Beja, Portugal)
Tunis, Hafsid Ifriqiya (Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
ca. 1505