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Contributor:
Moshe Mizrachi
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1902
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[Picture 1]I am king SolomonWith scepter and crownPikkolo is my chancellor.He stands near my throne.
Contributor:
Adele Sandler
Date:
ca. 1905
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When the seventh month arrived—the Israelites being [settled] in their towns—the entire people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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After these things, Ahmed Shaitan desired of the Jews a hundred and fifty thousand great gold pieces, and he also said, If ye bring them not quickly, I shall kill you with the sword. And when the Jews…
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Unknown
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
ca. 1524
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat.
And then…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565
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Prepare the feast
of perfect faith,
the delight of the Holy King.
Prepare the feast of the King.
This is the feast
of the Field of Holy Apples;
the Lesser Presence and Ancient Eminence
asse…
Contributor:
Isaac Luria
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Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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ca. 1565
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And we may remove the [Seder] table, so that the young child should express wonder at why we are removing the table; for surely it would be appropriate to eat now that we are already…
Contributor:
Judah Loew
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Prague, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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At the beginning of Purim, after evening prayer near the time when it gets dark, the charity warden brings with him an assortment of candles that are painted and nice looking, and he…
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Yuspa Shamash, Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
17th Century
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This poem says that wellbeing [shalom] is ours, since we have God as our king, and we have the Torah, whose paths are wellbeing, even though we have acted wrongly and have been trapped by bad hatred…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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On the eve of the fourteenth [of Nisan], after reciting the evening prayer, you must light a wax candle and recite the blessing on removing your leavened foods. Then you must search in your room and…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres, Solomon Adahan
Places:
Tétouan, Safavid Empire (Tétouan, Morocco)
Date:
1735