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Artist Unknown
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
ca. 1850
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The man should not purchase meat until he has taken counsel with his wife to see which type of meat she wants him to take, so that the wife cannot later say that it is dark meat…
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Eliezer Shem-Tov Papo
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1872–1874
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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
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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 Lesser Presence;
the Ancient Eminence and Field of Apples
assemble…
Contributor:
Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, Isaac Luria
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ca. 1565
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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot
Contributor:
Israel Najara
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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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
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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…
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Unknown
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1731/32
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Its sign is ה״שז
It is year 2 of the Sabbatical cycle
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year 3 of the small lunar cycle 299
year 9 of the large solar cycle 203
year 1837 [sic] of the Destruction of the Temple, may it be built and…
Contributor:
Ezra Dangur
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1904
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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…
Contributor:
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
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1568–1574