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He never mentions it by name. It might have been Trebibor or Majdawitz, Soblinka or Birkenhausen. He talks about “the camp,” as if there had been just one.
“After the war,” he says, “I saw a film…
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Carl Friedman
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1991
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Because the ineffable four-letter name of the Tetragrammaton is located in ‘Adam Qadmon, it will be…
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Abraham Cohen de Herrera
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1630
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In the 18th of the Month of Elul: the 5404 year from the Worlds creation, and according to common compute, in 1644. Aaron Levi, otherwise called Antonius Montezinus c…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1652
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But leaving aside these allegations, and judging without passion, do they lack their own merits that would allow them to be saved with us, as we desire? No.
1. For their part they possess the…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1655
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Prophecy of Egypt: The Lord rides a light cloud and will come to Egypt, and Idols of Egypt will move before him, and the heart of Egypt shall melt away in him.
Upon a light cloud the Lord…
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1688
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Now we come to the clarification of the mishnah: “One may not expound upon forbidden sexual relations to three people”—and the Gemara explains that this is referring to the concealed aspects of…
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Eleazar Rokeaḥ
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1740
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However, in our many sins, she is Zion, there is none who cares for her (Jeremiah 30:17). Consider the question you asked, speaking like an enemy without knowledge [see Job 34:34]. For it follows the…
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Moses Ḥagiz
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1707
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Moses Frankfurt said: The holy Torah tells us that the Holy One commanded Moses to interpret the Torah very plainly (Deuteronomy 27:8), to explain it clearly in seventy languages so that all nations…
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Moses Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1719/20
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With God’s help, we undertook to print the Torah, prophets, and writings with the commentary by Rashi, of blessed memory, and also with a Yiddish commentary, to understand the simple verse as it…
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Menaḥem Man Amelander, Eliezer Soesman (Zusman) Rudelsum
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1725
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Love:I see, Brother, that my being and perfection depend entirely on your perfection; and since the perfection of the object you have conceived…
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Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1661