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On the eve of the fourteenth [of Nisan], after reciting the evening prayer, you must light a wax candle and recite the blessing on removing your leavened foods. Then you must search in your room and…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres, Solomon Adahan
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Tétouan, Safavid Empire
(Tétouan, Morocco)
Date:
1735
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1666
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Sad is the man who forgets God
without waking from the dream of his error,
and of the evil that awaits him is never aware
until his sin of his death is the cause.
In his obstinate and…
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Aron de Chavez, Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1665
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Inasmuch as the members of the mahamad [board of governors] consider it a vile practice among us today for youngsters to strike with…
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The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640
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To cause a blessing to rest within your house, by virtue of your deeds in this world throughout your life; to include [a blessing in] the world to come, as indicated by the length of your days…
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Abraham ha-Levi Segal
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Rzeszow, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Rzeszow, Poland)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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Jacob Folkema
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1709
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David de Aron Uziel Cardoso
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
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Lord of the world, my God,
I humbly beg You, with a broken heart,
And with my weak body,
To confirm my baby in Torah,
As a person of honor and riches.…
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Anonymous
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1648
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1669
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Let the elders rejoice and the discerning be glad, the students and rabbis be happy, and the princes and the officers, and the wealthy and the needy exult, with the poor and those lacking sustenance…
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Judah Leyb Zelichover
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark
(Altona, Germany)
Date:
1697