Showing Results 661 - 670 of 5407
Public Access
Text
We have already said, that wheresoever a competent Number of those of our Nation, were settled into a standing Community, the first thing they took care of, was the Erection of a publick School. Now…
Contributor:
Isaac Abendana
Places:
London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1706
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
King Solomon (may he rest in peace) said: The righteous man walketh in his integrity [Proverbs 20:7]. Now this means that a man should follow God’s…
Contributor:
Jacob Ashkenazi of Janov
Places:
Janov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Janów Lubelski, Poland)
Date:
Early 17th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
This introduction will speak about how important the person is through the Torah. One may read them, since there are many teachings with intentions inside. The teaching of the Lord is…
Contributor:
Shalom Italia, Jacob Ashkenazi of Janov
Places:
Janov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Janów Lubelski, Poland)
Date:
1622
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
“Moses received the Torah from Sinai” [m. Avot 1:1]:
R. [Ovadiah] from Bartenura has explained this to mean “from the One revealed at Sinai.” And there, when God revealed Himself at Sinai, Moses…
Contributor:
Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1614–1617
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Commentaries and novellae on the six orders of the Mishnah; a detailed analysis of the halakhah, as well as allusions to the golden bells of agadot (legends) and gentle chimes of esoteric wisdom. Also…
Contributor:
Raphael Immanuel Ricchi, Solomon Proops
Places:
Gorizia, Holy Roman Empire (Gorizia, Italy)
Date:
1731
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The rule of the aforementioned fifth and sixth items, which concern going to bed and rising. It is stated and summarized from what has been said in the past, that sleep being so harmful…
Contributor:
Moses Almosnino
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1564
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I found it written somewhere that the eleven offerings brought on Rosh ḥodesh [the New Moon] correspond to the eleven extra days of the solar year over and above those of the…
Contributor:
Moses Isserles
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Lithuania)
Date:
1570
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
On the signs of the plague and the poisonous fever that is called pestilence, and how a person should conduct himself to guard himself from them, in accordance with the nature of this lower…
Contributor:
Abraham Yagel
Date:
1587
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
In which it is explained that the essence of the Torah is the performance of the commandments, not intellectual knowledge; and also the reason why it is called the Talmud…
Contributor:
Ḥayim ben Bezalel
Places:
Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire (Friedberg, Germany)
Date:
1588
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The initial premise of our argument—and the matters of which we speak are of ancient provenance—is that love can be divided into three categories, which are: the love of something beneficial, the love…
Contributor:
Israel Najara
Places:
Damascus, Ottoman Empire (Damascus, Syria)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century