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You shall not tolerate a sorceress.
Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.
Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone shall be proscribed.
You shall not wrong…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you. Speak to the…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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With God’s Help.
From one generation to the next, our ancestors have removed obstacles from the path of the people so that they not unwittingly stumble into sin [Isa 57:14], particularly [with respect…
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Isaiah Bassan
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Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1720
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On the eve of the Day of Atonement, in the afternoon, I changed from the express to the local train that runs to my home town. The Jews who had traveled with me got…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1938
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The sages say, that at the time the Syrian-African Rift
occurred, the celestial inhabitants were not
up-to-date. Each man was engaged
at his trade. In grinding…
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Avot Yeshurun
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1973
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I’m in a rage, so angry that I don’t know what to do
because of what just happened when I went out with a few
good friends to take a walk in town, this lovely Sabbath day.
We joined a crowd of rowdy…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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17th 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)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century
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Has he had the temerity to speak perversely against the foundations of the faith and of the Torah, and mocked the words of our sages of blessed memory recorded in the Mishnah and the Gemara, or has he…
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Saul Berlin
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1784
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Prepare the feast
of perfect faith,
the delight of the Holy King.
Prepare the feast of the King.
This is the feast
of the Lesser Presence;
the Ancient Eminence and Field of Apples
assemble…
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Isaac Luria
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ca. 1565
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The study program of this night has already been published and made known to the multitudes through the pamphlets that have been disseminated. And this custom has been disseminated throughout all of…
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Isaiah Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1623