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Benedict de Castro
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1631
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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…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire (Friedberg, Germany)
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1588
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And if one were to ask: why is it that in our generation—and even in the time of the Ari of blessed memory (who successfully revealed many higher secrets)—neither fire nor angels appear, as they did…
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Nehemiah Ḥiya Ḥayun
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Berlin, Holy Roman Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1713
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Earlier on we have clearly shown that the animal soul does not consist of blood and how much less so the human soul, since the latter is an incorporeal substance, invisible and incorruptible, whereas…
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Samuel da Silva
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
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1623
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Now, my dear friends, do you see what you’re doing? The Holy Days indulged in arrogant boasting, in envy and hatred and warfare. Hanukkah tried to fight them all and carry the day…
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Zalman Sofer
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Oldendorf, Holy Roman Empire (Oldendorf, Germany)
Date:
1517
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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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Moritz Daniel Oppenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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1880
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Max Liebermann
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Berlin, Germany
Date:
1908
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In came the beginning of the month of December 1918.
Like the cheerless, cold drizzle, dirty frozen air hovers over the fields. Everywhere fragments of sky seem to be scattered over mounds of earth…
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David Bergelson
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922
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He married Sonechka early, out of love. He loved her passionately only for the first two years. Then he lost interest but didn’t even notice it. He wasn’t thinking about love and women as a rule. He…
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Semyon Yushkevich
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1922