Composite manuscript: Hebrew letters to the Jewish court of Paris by Pinchas Michael Abdallah (Gaster Hebrew MS 1207)

"And if a woman have an issue, and her issue in her flesh be blood, she shall be in her impurity seven days; and whosoever touches her shall be unclean until the evening." This is the law of the Torah of the Lord, who chose Abraham and his seed after him. And the argument that took place between Abraham and the Lord before He rained fire and brimstone from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah is not hidden, as it is written in the portion of Vayera And He Appeared, chapter 18, verse 17: "And the Lord said: 'Shall I hide from Abraham that which I am doing?'" Verse 18: "Seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him." Verse 19: "For I have known him, to the end that he may command his children and his household after him, that they may keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice; to the end that the Lord may bring upon Abraham that which He has spoken of him." In the portion of Lech Lecha Go Forth, chapter 15, in the Covenant between the Pieces the original word "ha-betarim" refers to the cut-up animals in the covenant ritual, and the second covenant He made with him in chapter 17, which is the commandment of circumcision; and had he wished to fulfill this covenant, the first covenant would not have been fulfilled.

And behold, from the aforementioned argument, we have learned the righteousness of the Lord, not only for Abraham and his seed, but for all the nations of the earth, as it is written, "And all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him," in the verse mentioned, where the Lord said, "For I have known him," etc. This is to say, I made Myself and My glory known to him before I judged Sodom and Gomorrah, so that he would know and recognize that there is no other god beside Me who could tell me what to do and what to act, to reward with good the ones who walk in the way a literal translation of the Hebrew text's glossed structure, and to pay retribution vengeance to the sinners walking in evil ways. That is what He said, as written above, "And keep the way of the Lord, to do righteousness and justice," etc. And He showed him in action, and He saved Lot and his house from among the Sodomites, and afterward, He paid them retribution according to their deeds, so that Abraham would see and strive to know how to do righteousness and justice, meaning true judgment, and his righteousness. And we learned...