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The words of the perfect scholar, the divine kabbalist, R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz (may the memory of the righteous be for the life of the World-to-Come):
Know that the pious one and myself, his…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1530s
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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot
Contributor:
Israel Najara
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Early 17th Century