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This is a short essay on the debate concerning practical halakhic issues that took place between the sages of Safed and those of Jerusalem wherein the sages of Safed saw fit to implement the ruling…
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Levi Ibn Ḥabib
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1538
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For there are seven abominations in their hearts to ensnare the souls of the innocent, and they abolish public study of the Torah, and they cast off the yoke of the Torah from their necks and from the…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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Vilna, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1772
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Beware! This man, Wessely, is an impious man. Beware, do not draw near to him! God, the Lord of Hosts, knows that for the sake of the glory of your Holy Torah I have come this day to hew down he who…
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David Tevele
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Lissa, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Leszno, Poland)
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1782
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What does this man [who contemplates the giving of the Torah] think that Moses our master, may peace be upon him, sat and did for forty days and forty nights when he stayed with the Lord on…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1623
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When we continue with this matter…
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Solomon Troki
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Riga, Sweden (Riga, Latvia)
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ca. 1700
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Christian Priest:Good morning to the Jews.
Jew:A good morning and a good year to my lord.
Priest:Where are you going today to insult the gentiles?
Jew:I do not understand you.
Priest:Have not you Jews…
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Saul Merari
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Papal States (Italy)
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1706
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In sum, many rabbis in these times understand nothing about the spheres and their workings, just as oxen and donkeys lack understanding [see Isaiah 1:3]. They have violated laws, broken statutes…
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Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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First Half of the 17th Century
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When there came to our notice the work composed and recently published by R. Azariah de’ Rossi, entitled Me‘or ‘enayim, which contains the sections: “The Voice of God,” “The Glory of the Elders,” and…
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Samuel Judah Katzenellenbogen
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Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1574
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This is an image of the title page of the first printing of Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen’s Sefer ha-nitsaḥon (The Book of Victory). The book was first published in Altdorf in 1644 by the priest Theodore…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan
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Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Holy Roman Empire (Altdorf bei Nürnberg, Germany)
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Late 14th to early 15th 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)
Date:
1784