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I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…
Don’t overshadow anyone. Know that you have an obligation to observe 613 commandments, because many of them you have to perform, but they can be done conjointly; so that when one commandment is…
An apology for the fact that this is written in the language of Ashkenaz (in Hochdeutch [German]). In my opinion, there are two good reasons for this: first, I have found written in…
For I heard slander, fear was on every side [see Psalms 31:14], as the son of the despised maidservant slanders the son of the mistress, saying, “Those miserable Jews, they had a single language from…
Rules and regulations of Talmud Torah, now consolidated, and the general council of our community of Hamburg, whereby the members of the general council shall elect as parnasim (community leaders)…
The Messrs. Parnassim of T: T: [Talmud Torah—Ed.] having disclosed to the gentlemen of the Mahamad [board of governors—Ed.] and councillors the liberty which the students…
And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1): In that part of the land of Canaan where his father had lived, similar to the verse: [To Mamre, to Kiryat…
“R. Isaac said, etc.” In Genesis Rabbah it says: “Even though there is not a single superfluous narrative in the Torah—not even ‘the sister of Lotan was Timna’”—for it says in Sanhedrin Chapter ḥelek…
So that you may obtain a full, sufficient, and satisfying account, oh friend reader, of such an eminent structure as was that of the Temple of Solomon, it is advisable that you first know some things…
Amo]s son of Ahiel, the rag shredder
. . . ya]hu son of Hasadyahu, the sil[ver] collector
. . . ]yahu [son of Ye]dayahu the [silver] collector
Translated by Anson F. Rainey from Shmuel Aḥituv’s…