Showing Results 21 - 30 of 279
Public Access
Text
The study program of this night has already been published and made known to the multitudes through the pamphlets that have been disseminated. And this custom has been disseminated throughout all of…
Contributor:
Jan Luyken, Isaiah Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1623
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Even though the fifteenth of the month of Shevat is during the period of shovevim, one does not fast, for it is the New Year’s Day for fruit trees. And with the tikkun [mystical repair] performed on…
Contributor:
Anonymous
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1731/32
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
You already know that concerning all matters of supernal attainment, one needs to be alone in his house so that others will not disturb his thought, and he himself needs to…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
The three problems that I first asked are explained in regard to all of that which I have said. The first: Why is it called the “Holy Land” and the “Holy Temple”? This is according to the fact that it…
Contributor:
Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik, Isaac Karo
Places:
Date:
Beginning of the 16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Question 30: From Gaza: may our master teach us whether the inhabitants of Gaza are obligated to separate terumot and tithes, as there are a few people who own land. In general, the question is…
Contributor:
David Ibn Abi Zimra
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
And praised be the Lord—the Sabbath came and rest came, on Friday night at five in the evening, the strong wind calmed a bit, and we sailed well on Friday, Saturday, Sunday; and on Monday, we saw…
Contributor:
Abraham Ishmael Ḥay Sanguinetti
Places:
Acre, Ottoman Empire
(Acre, Israel)
Date:
1741
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Hear my cry, O Lord,
Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.
Have mercy, fight my battle for me,
For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Long have I inhabited a foreign land,
Afflicted with…
Contributor:
Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
The Book of Me‘am lo‘ez is the explication of the entire Hebrew Bible in Ladino, explaining the way of life which a person must lead as the sacred law commanded, and also to know about all that…
Contributor:
Jacob Huli
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Meat strengthens the body and provides it better nourishment than the other foods. Right after slaughtering it is very good and useful, but old meat is one of the causes of illness. The hard meat of…
Contributor:
David de Silva
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century