ALIYAH: CONFLICT AND AMBIVALENCE
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66. This legend is first mentioned in Gedalya iben Yihya's Shalshelet Hakabbalah in the sixteenth century. See Israel Levine,“R. Yehudah Halevi,” Encyclopedia Hebraica 19:187-88
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68. See supra no. 19: responsum 311; and my treatment of this subject, supra no. 34