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Memorandum
To the Board of the Institute of Technical Sciences in Haifa
Dear Sirs,
The Supreme Institute of Technical Sciences, which the Board is working to establish, is a joy to all those…
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Joseph Luria, Ben-Zion Mossinson, Yeḥiel Yeḥieli
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1913
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With the Grace of God, Sunday, [the week of parshat] Beshalaḥ 5658 [1898], Sighet
To my honorable friend, the famous sage, who is both rooted in the knowledge of [Torah from Mt.] Sinai and who uproots…
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Kedushas Yom Tov
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Sziget, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Szigetvár, Hungary)
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1898
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I traveled from Odessa by boat for eleven days until we arrived in Jaffa—this was the path taken by the Russian company’s ships. However, this was not the true length of the journey, which was in fact…
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Mordechai ben Hillel ha-Kohen
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
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1890
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From the rabbis and geonim of the holy city of Safed, may it be speedily rebuilt in our days, sent to Modena, may God protect it, in 5370 [1610]
He shall be called a holy man [see Isaiah 4:3]; the…
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The Rabbis of Safed
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1610
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I went to the grave of the Tanna Ila, a man from the village of Yavneh who is mentioned in the tractates Berakhot and Avot, and afterwards we went to the grave of the pious Tanna R. Judah bar Ila‘i…
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Isaiah Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1621
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It happened one day that Sabbatai Zevi returned from Egypt with his wife. As he entered Gaza, the prophet Nathan cried out with a loud voice: “This is the saviour of Israel, the messiah of the God of…
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Abraham Cuenque
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
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ca. 1692
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Now I shall come to fulfill your desire by writing to you at length about the customs of the residents of the land of Israel; for although I also wrote to you by way of the pilgrims, and I sent them…
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Israel of Perugia
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1517–1523
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Behold, from the time of our settlement in the city that the Lord has chosen, which He had desired for His habitation (Psalms 132:13), we heard your voice and obeyed, for you stand in the breach…
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Students of the Jerusalem Yeshiva
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1521
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At an age when most youngsters are struggling to unravel the secrets of mathematics and the mysteries of the Bible; at an age when first love blooms; at the tender age of sixteen, I was handed a rifle…
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1994
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And now, why is it that I ask you, and beg of you, like a son who begs of his father, that you do everything that you possibly can to emigrate to this holy place? If there is no other reason, then it…
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Samuel Picho
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1500