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Colophon: Pentateuch with Rashi and Other Commentaries
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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…

Contributor:

Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish

Places:

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)

Date:

1505/6

Subjects:

Bible, Torah study, Education, Punishment, Print

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Speeches
Regulations: On Purchasing Copies of the Talmud
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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…

Contributor:

The Council of the Lands of Lithuania

Places:

Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)

Date:

1655, 1667, 1679

Subjects:

Education, Bible, Talmud, Torah study, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Law
Shir ha-ma‘alot le-David (A Song of Ascents, of David)
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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. 

Contributor:

David Darshan

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1571

Subjects:

Bible, Education, Torah study, Bet Midrash, Print

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Print & Book Culture, Religion & Theology