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The Jewish Community of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1702
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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…
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Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
1699
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And just as a person finds pleasant only such food as he has prepared himself, in accordance with what he wishes to eat, and has no desire whatsoever to depend upon his neighbor’s table, so too, he…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire (Friedberg, Germany)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
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We have accepted upon ourselves the rabbi, aluf, the gaon, our teacher and master R. Isaiah ben R. Abraham ha-Levi, of blessed memory, to serve as our av bet din [head of the court] and rosh yeshiva…
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The Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1606
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Now we have already informed all those present of the main point: we have come to inform and announce and make known to His Excellency, because this is the custom, what it is his duty toward us. For…
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Unknown
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1640