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do you want to be killed, strangled and slaughtered like an offering to your God Who poured out His anger upon you without mercy? Would it not be safer for you to worship our gods, our images and crosses and we would form one people which would unite together.' "But the holy and faithful people who so often allowed themselves to be murdered for the sake of the Lord, raised their voices together to the Almighty in Heaven and cried: 'Hear o Israel the Lord our God, the Holy One and the King of the Universe, we have been murdered for Thy sake so often already. O Lord God of Israel let us remain faithful to Thee.' Afterward they recited the confession of sins and said: 'We are guilty and thus recognize the Divine judgment.' Now the villains turned upon them and there was not one of them who did not fall victim.
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with whom the wicked mob had again made an alliance chased all the Jews from the city into the fields and vineyards where the villains surrounded them in a circle, stripped them to their skin and ordered them to lie on the ground. The villains spoke to the Jews with friendly and consoling words: 'Why
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Shabbatai HaKohen was regarded by his contemporaries as more than usually learned. He frequently contested the decisions of his predecessors, and followed an entirely new path in the interpretation of the Talmudic law. He made light, too, of the decisions of his contemporaries, and thus drew on
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after Shabbatai HaKohen. It was built in the late 16th century, after the former synagogue had burned down in 1560. In the early 17th century the synagogue was enlarged with a sidehall and a
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This work was approved by the greatest Polish and Lithuanian scholars and since 1674 has been published in most editions of the
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Nekuddot HaKesef, criticism of the Ture Zahav of David b. Shmuel HaLevi (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1677)
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that he composed in commemoration of the Chmielnicki tragedies. In 1648 the communities of the
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A common painting wrongly attributed to Shach (the figure is Rabbi Haim Deutschman)
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Tekafo Kohen, general laws concerning "teku", etc. (Frankfort-on-the-Oder, 1677)
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In addition to his knowledge of the Talmudic law he was versed in the
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he stood, perhaps, first among the Talmudic scholars of his age.
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in the Haggadah (Presburg, 1840; abbreviation of Kerem Shlomo)
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Ha'Aruch, a commentary on the Yoreh De'ah section of the
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in Moravia, from where he was called to the rabbinate of
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Po'el Tzedek, an arrangement of the 613 commandments of
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On the same day 1,500 people were killed in the city of
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Rubin, although their reasons for doing so are unknown.
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Gevurat Anashim, on section 154 of the Shulchan Aruch
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Shabbethai ben Meïr ha-Kohen
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