Ben Ezra & Jehuda Halevi

Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 356

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356. Ben Ezra & Jehuda Halevi.

Yahya, Shalshelet. Maase Buch f. nb. Tendlau, Sagen3, No. 32. Griinbaum, Jud. Dtsch.

Chrest. p. 391.

Ben Gorion I, 298,

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Wisdom Tribes Ezra Levi Judges

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