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We have already said that whoever invents new things is the one who has to bring…
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Saul Levi Mortera
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1640
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The main foundation that you propose for your doctrine consists of the sin of Adam, in which you believe sin was perpetrated by all of the human species, which was contained in Adam, and of the sole…
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Isaac Orobio de Castro
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1670
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They distort the words of the living God. It is a clear Torah lesson, as the sages have taught: “Whosoever speculates on four things, a pity for him! He is as though he had not come into the world.”
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Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1714
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Book III: In which the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the dead are proved against the Sadducees. The causes of the miraculous resurrection are explained, and the final judgment and…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1636
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A furious epistle against [Juan de] Prado, a philosopher-doctor who doubted or did not believe in the truth of the divine scripture and sought to cover up his maliciousness with the feigned…
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Isaac Orobio de Castro
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1664
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[47] Now all that remains is to reply to certain arguments by which they want to persuade themselves that the choice of the Hebrews was not for a time, and in relation only to their state, but eternal…
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Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1670
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God, blessed be He, knew very well that the people of Israel would be scattered among the nations and that most of them would not be able to understand the holy tongue [Hebrew]. Therefore our sages…
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Ḥayim Druker
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1711
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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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Where will you camp, O my ibex, for whom I yearn?
Where will you drip the droplets of your wine and your dew—O formidable one?
If you bring up your beauty to heaven on high,
You will dim…
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Isaac ‘Uziel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Early 17th Century
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The turning wheel runs round and round.
It opens and closes the exit of my gate.
Noisily it turns for ruin and destruction.
My head is split, my entrails spilled.
It chases and it catches…
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Solomon de Oliveyra
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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17th Century