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ABSTRACTS Moshe Gil COMMENTARY ON THE SABBATH LIMITS ( Tef } um Shabbat ) THE KARAITE QUARTER IN JERUSALEM IN THE LIGHT OF THEIR Shammai , with whom he disagrees . The author especially dissents from Ben- research that refers to its location , concentrating on the work of Haggai Ben- surveys the major sources that mention the quarter and its environs , and deals with centuries until it ceased to exist with the Crusader conquest of the city . The author The Karaites in Jerusalem lived in a separate quarter during the tenth and eleventh not provide us with any proof that this quarter was encircled by a wall , and it is the Karaite quarter was apparently outside the city walls . At any rate , the sources do opposite is true . The author believes that , on the basis of Karaite writings , the evidence that the Karaite quarter was located within the city walls , but that the translation . He comes to the conclusion that the responsum cannot be used as Shammai's interpretation of the responsu...  אל הספר
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