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Juan Bautista Villalpando Juan Bautista Villalpando
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John Philoponus John Philoponus
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Midrash Midrash
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Peripatetics Peripatetics
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Edward Abbey Edward Abbey
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Garcilaso de la Vega Garcilaso de la Vega
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Paul the Deacon Paul the Deacon
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Persuasion Persuasion
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DISCOVERING TORAH
Newspaper article from: Chicago Jewish Star ...reading this passage we note the degradation of the beginning of the Jewish...bring the first fruits of the soil which You, O God, have given...Torah reading, and to the commentary on it by Rashi. Continuing...successfully ameliorates this discrepancy as it ...

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