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[Sabbatai’s] illumination grew steadily more intense up to the thirteenth day of the month of Adar [23 February]. On that day his brother came for a stay, along with four of Vani Effendi’s men.…
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Jacob Najara
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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And I have heard an amazing reason from an old man as to why music was absent from that feast [of King Ahasuerus], and I present it here, with a great number of additions to what I heard. These will…
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Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
16th Century
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Ezra Dangur
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1904
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Cast [in this passage]
Abraham Levi:Rich merchant
Aneta:Abraham Levi’s wife
Max, Yosef, and Aron:Abraham and Aneta Levi’s sons
Frida and Klerchen:Abraham and Aneta Levi’s daughters
Shmuel Natan:Zioni…
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Mordechai Monassowitz, Mordechai Monassowitz
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1902
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised.
Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it.
I the young one, Meir, son of our…
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Meir de Boton
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
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 Ancient Eminence;
the Lesser Presence and Field of Apples
assemble…
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Isaac Luria
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ca. 1565
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The reading of Tetsaveh on [Shabbat] Zakhor, [the Sabbath immediately preceding Purim]:
A remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of…
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Israel de Curiel
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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The portion of Va-yikra’, on the holy Sabbath, 7th Adar II, 5331 [1571]. I delivered this sermon before a large audience, in honor of the King, king of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
[When any…
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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1568–1574
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David Fresco
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1892
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Their custom on the night of Purim was for each individual to pray in his own private domain and home, and…
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini, Ḥayim Abulafia
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1736