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From the day that God confused all the languages of the land [see Genesis 11:9], through the bitter and rapid exile of the expulsion from Spain, since then all good things have ended for us; our glory…
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Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1505/6
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And with this ethical teaching I saw fit to seal up the pillar of Torah, which in our generation is very much weakened, and on the verge of the abyss, as all its methods of study are corrupt from the…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1607
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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
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1655, 1667, 1679
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Seek ye out the book of the Lord (Isaiah 34:16), and read The Holy Epistle [so] called to water the flock, go and browse.
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David Darshan
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1571