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In his De officiis, most discreet reader, Tullius Cicero writes that nothing can move us so powerfully as to see some form or kind of benefit, which must be esteemed all the more, the less it is of an…
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Yom Tob Athias, Abraham Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
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1553
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Should we not cry and weep that until now our scholars have not concerned themselves to provide us with a 24 [i.e., Bible] in Yiddish, arranged according to the simple meaning of the text, word for…
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Jekutiel Blitz
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1676–1679
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The Master of the Universe gave us the holy and blessed law so that we would enjoy l’olam haba [the world to come], so that we would know and see the light of eternal life. Study and a good…
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Abraham Asá
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1739
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Some time ago I came here to the holy congregation of Amsterdam and I visited the schools of the Sephardim a number of times. There I saw “giants [in scholarship]: tender children as small as…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1680
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[Question:] A certain gentleman, a close and trusted friend, a Torah scholar who had read scripture, learned Mishnah, and ministered to many learned talmudic scholars, invited me to come to the holy…
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Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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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…
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Isaac Abendana
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1706
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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)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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Human prayer that is properly intended is above, in the supernal depths, according to the secret of the point of Zion; and there is the secret place of the holy…
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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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These are the words of the covenant [see, e.g., Deuteronomy 28:69], the twenty-four enactments that the people of action of the holy society, which is in the holy city of Safed, may it be built and…
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Safed Kabbalists
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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ca. 1577
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We are therefore obliged to examine the words of the living God, which are expressed through the wonderful wise men who have received the truth [i.e., kabbalists], the foundation of the Torah. The…
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Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1636