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Women were exempted from the obligation of semikhah on the basis of Leviticus 1: 2+4, where the address to benei yisrael supposedly excludes benot yisrael even under circumstances where women are obligated to bring such a sacrifice.
Legal-Religious Status of the Jewish Female. leBeit Yoreh 2009
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They are the images of the world as Kertesz would have liked it to benot as he found it.
The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006
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They are the images of the world as Kertesz would have liked it to benot as he found it.
The Great Escape Kati Marton 2006
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Blinking, having the strange feeling that his eyelids were gummed together, he glared frowningly at this annoying captain, searching for some signs that the man was not what he appeared to benot a bluff and ordinary soldier, but a wizard of high intelligence and cunning, a rogue Gray Robe or mystic in disguise.
Dragons Of A Lost Star Weis, Margaret 2001
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Your people ain't mine, Gray, nor mine yours, and they won't benot in our lifetime.
The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891
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For many years, Trager’s work was unknown in Israel and it was only in the 1970s that her stories appeared for the first time, in the children’s magazine Haaretz Shelanu, and later, in the collection Sippurei nashim benot ha-aliyah ha-rishonah (Stories of the Women of the First Aliyah, 1984).
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She has also composed various prayers, among them Tehinnat ha-nashim le-vinyan ha-mikdash (The Supplication of the Mothers for the Rebuilding of the Temple), Tehinnah la-ishah kodem talmud Torah (Prayer for a Woman Prior to Torah Study) and Tefillah al benot Yisra’el she-nirtzehu bi-yedei benei zugan (Prayer on Jewish women who have been murdered by their spouses).
Yael Levine. Jewish Women's Archive 2006
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Tery ungrateful to good Mrs. Beaumont and the ladies hur friends) and how they all do; my father, mother (my heart at times bleeds for them) n) y dear Jeronymo, my two other brothers, and good Father Marcseotti, and my. sister-inlaw whom I have a-o much reason to love; it will be a great ease to my heart; provided theaccount benot air?’
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'fcyftb a befp; e to p; ape: ano v? et f beir pjafcers are not btf erlg refuTco, altbougbtbe£ benot allotoeo, no; petpJeafedDoo in all popntes.
Lectures or daily sermons, of that Reuerend Diuine, D. Iohn Caluine... upon the Prophet Jonas .. 1578
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