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With regard to beggars who rise up and roam through the countryside (Job 1:7), walking through its length and breadth (Genesis 13:17). They come from a faraway land (Joshua 9:9) and spread out over…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1623
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If one who has been excommunicated does not act to have his excommunication removed within thirty days, and the local rabbinic court sees and observes that he remains in his state of rebellion when he…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
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1623–1629
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A list of regulations passed in the Ashkenazic community of Safed, may it be sustained, by order of the officials, some rabbis, and certain members, for fifty years, from Shevat 12 in the year 5336…
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Moses Trani
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
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1576
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No Jew shall be allowed to cause to be printed in this city or outside it in these realms Hebrew or Ladino books or [books] in any other language without express permission of the Mahamad [board of…
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The Spanish and Portuguese Congregation of London
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London, Kingdom of England
(London, United Kingdom)
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1693
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In the presence of all the rabbis and the entire council (qri’ah) of Rome, the Scuola Catalana-Aragonese [Catalan-Aragonese Congregation] agrees to release Giuseppe Picciotto from a ban (niddui). The…
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The Catalan-Aragonese Congregation of Rome
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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1536
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And they permitted themselves to place a blemish in the holiness of heaven and the holiness of the study of the holy Torah, to place the filth of the primeval serpent, behaving according to their…
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Moses Ḥagiz
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1714
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We have placed in ḥerem [excommunication] David Henriq[ue]s, alias David Almansa, [and] Aron and Ishack Dias da Fonseca and the account reads, as follows:
(In Adar I). The gentlemen of the Mahamad…
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Pieter van Hoven, The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1712
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And now we see that the number of servants breaking away from their Master, our Heavenly Father, increases daily, in that whenever they have a quarrel with their Jewish brothers or sisters they have…
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Azriel Diena
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Sabbioneta, Duchy of Mantua
(Sabbioneta, Italy)
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1536
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“Back at home, I pulled myself together and reflected on what had happened. Given how the people had behaved when they heard the wrongheaded and hateful rabbi’s curse of excommunication, I realized…
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Ludwig Philippson
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Magdeburg, Kingdom of Prussia
(Magdeburg, Germany)
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1854
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- The mahamad [congregation board] shall have supreme authority over everything. And no one shall be able to contravene the decisions taken and promulgated by the said mahamad, nor shall they sign any…
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Romeyn de Hooghe, Kahal Talmud Torah of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1639