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I will raise the matter of trimming the beard
He trims it away like leaven [on the eve of Passover]
He leaves only a small goatee.
One more…
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
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16th Century
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We should praise God eternally and proclaim His wonders, for He is revered and venerated by pious souls. He is powerful both on earth and in Heaven. His praise is unfathomable, no one can laud Him…
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Elye Bokher
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1507
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“I’m called the offspring of the grape,” said the wine. “People drink me fervently, and I’m very fine. I can make people joke and jibe, I can drive away their terrible pains, I can delight their…
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Zalman Sofer
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
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1517
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O peerless beauty, veil your hair, lest you play havoc with the world, without lifting a finger! They are famous throughout the world, they ring in the ears of all who hear of them. The weakest…
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Judah Zarco
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1560
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O Lord of everything, who seeks the nation that seeks you,
Do not separate yourself from us, and we will not separate from you—O Lord of everything!
For you, O…
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Eleazar Azikri
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1584–1588
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I am your God and Lord
Who with infinite power
Freed you from Egypt
Where you lived in suffering
And harsh despair.
Do not revere
Foreign gods before me,
And make no trophies
In the likeness of the…
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Leonor de Carvajal
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1589–1595
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If I have come to relate and tell, divulging the entire mystery of the Garden of Eden and the matters residing within it, of the species of trees, a book could…
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Joseph Taitatsak
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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Early 16th Century
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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…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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These are the words that the divine man Moses, R. Moses Cordovero, may his memory be for a blessing for life in the world-to-come, spoke concerning that which man should do and live by, and there are…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century
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Let the entire soul praise the Lord (Psalms 150:6) concerning the four quarters of the component of the souls that approach the Lord; and they are in detail as follows: the greatest, which…
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Menaḥem Azariah da Fano
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Fano, Papal States (Fano, Italy)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century