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- ↑ See tosfot yeshanim cited by massoret hashass, ketuvot, 63b, https://hebrewbooks.org/shas.aspx?mesechta=15&daf=63b&format=pdf.
- ↑ See Responsa of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg, ed Cremona, resp 12.
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- Zunz, Z.G. pp. 38, 42, 193.
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