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On the next morning he rose early and resumed his march toward Rome.

The men around Dr. Abulafia-and they were the most persuasive in Safed-had a clear vision of what might happen to world Judaism if the rabbis prevailed.

Can Judaism prevail if it is tied to a narrow interpretation of the law as conceived and administered by a body of older rabbis?

"In circulating this necessary but unpleasant letter we are not concerned with his faulty decision in the Damascus case."

No food is cooked, no fire lighted, no lamp lit.

"In later years certain liberal philosophers of Judaism would deplore the fact that the iron-willed German ever reached Safed, for after he completed his codification the Jews of the world were hemmed in by a body of law so specific and rigid that any normal growth seemed impossible; harsh critiques were written of Eliezer bar Zadok's deadening influence on Jewish thought"