Showing Results 61 - 70 of 212
Public Access
Text
Turn from evil and do good. Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…
Contributor:
Isaac de Matatia Aboab
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1685
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Inasmuch as the members of the mahamad [board of governors] consider it a vile practice among us today for youngsters to strike with…
Contributor:
The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
But take heed, blind Pharisees, what you say! For though your hearts be full of malice and cunning yet, being without light, your tongues betray you. Suppose I was a Christian, what then would you say…
Contributor:
Uriel da Costa
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Zetim:How blessed and how happy must that manA thousand times be called who acknowledgesOne God alone, a single entity.Gerizim:How happy and how blessed must he beWho in God’s holy Law meditatesBoth…
Contributor:
Reuel Jessurun
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1624
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The King enters in a drowsy state, neither entirely asleep nor entirely awake.King:What is this dream, which I have dreamt?Who, indeed, is the…
Contributor:
Joseph Penso de la Vega
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1668
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
You asked how an object can move without being touched, and this indeed is a puzzling matter to all sages. To explain this issue, I must first discuss some rudiments of the science of music, for if…
Contributor:
Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1629
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation?
Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…
Contributor:
Abraham Wertheim
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1893
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Persecution because of a person’s religious observance is reprehensible, even despicable, though still somewhat understandable. What is understandable—I am not saying: justifiable—is that zealots who…
Contributor:
Mozes Henriquez Pimentel
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1891
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Behold, we have before us the head of the rationalists [or “rational theologians”], Maimonides, may his memory be for a blessing. In chapter three of Hilkhot teshuvah [Mishneh Torah, Laws of…
Contributor:
Saul Levi Mortera
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1636
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
In order that all the simple…
Contributor:
Menasseh Ben Israel
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1651