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February 28, 2025

A Rare French Hebrew Manuscript Finds Its Way to Israel

Joseph Kimhi’s Refined Seventyfold.

Located between the Ashkenazi heartland of western Germany and northeastern France on the one hand, and the Sephardi world south of the Pyrenees on the other, was the Jewish community of Provence. From roughly the 12th through the 14th centuries, it was a center of intense intellectual creativity. One of its most impressive sons was the grammarian and exegete Rabbi David Kimhi. Itamar Eichner reports on a work by Kimhi’s father, a famed scholar in his own right:

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