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Romeyn de Hooghe
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1675–ca. 1695
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The enlightened will awaken, and he who understands will rise up to waken his soul, which will speak to his body; and his body will speak with his evil inclination.
And thus, the soul will…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1712
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Mikhail Grobman
Date:
1963
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In the year 5473 [1713] since the creation of, the world, from the moment it began the plague fell upon us because of our many sins. In the community we still had no one ill nor bad air in the country…
Contributor:
Moses Eisenstadt
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1713
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A song I engraved on the tombstone (matzevet) of my master, my father, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come. The holy seed shall be its stock (matzavtah; Isaiah 6:13), is it not the…
Contributor:
Bernard Picart, Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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Whenever you go in to visit any sick person, whoever he may be, coerce him, even against his wishes, into making a will, and do not have any concern on account of his sons and his wife and…
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Solomon Adahan
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1735
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Belonging to Hamiohel daughter of Menahem.
Places:
Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
7th Century BCE
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The hand of the Lord came upon me. He took me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many of them spread over…
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Biblical Period
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Gravestone of honorable old lady Sra Rachel, wife of the wealthy citizen the honorable R. Jacob Fernandes Gill, deceased, seventh day of Passover, 22 Nisan 5486
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17th and 18th Centuries
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[This is the grave] of the blessed, revered, and God-fearing Abraham Baruh Henriques, who, in his life, sustained this Holy Synagogue of Nidhe Israel and protected it with…
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(Barbados)
Date:
1700–1750