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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
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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1736
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Concerning the origin of the religion of Israel [Yi-tz’ u-lo-yeh], it has come from a distant past.
It began with Adam [A-tan], who was a descendant of P’an-ku in the nineteenth generation, and it was…
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Unknown
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Kaifeng, Qing Dynasty
(Kaifeng, China)
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1663
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[ . . . ] 5. When one wishes to go to the synagogue, he should say, “I will go to the synagogue for the sake of the unification of the presence of the Holy One and to raise it from its fall,” as…
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Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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17th Century
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And we may remove the [Seder] table, so that the young child should express wonder at why we are removing the table; for surely it would be appropriate to eat now that we are already…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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End of the 16th Century
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At the beginning of Purim, after evening prayer near the time when it gets dark, the charity warden brings with him an assortment of candles that are painted and nice looking, and he…
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Yuspa Shamash, Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
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17th Century
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In placing before the public this account of the Bene-Israel of the Bombay Presidency, we think we need make no apology for having selected a subject in which the civilized world has already…
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Haeem Samuel Kehimkar
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1897
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The task of this book was determined by its being part of the Grundriß [der Gesamtwissenschaft des Judentums; Fundamental Study toward the Comprehensive Knowledge of Judaism] series. Based on…
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Ismar Elbogen
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1913
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§181. In contradistinction to ritual holiness we have what has been called ethical holiness. The former is merely symbolic of an order of existence higher…
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Moritz Lazarus
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1898
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On the morning of the twelfth day, the child is bathed and laid in a cradle with the repetition of the word Beshem Adonai that is, “in the…
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Haeem Samuel Kehimkar
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1897–1937
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Seals from numerous sites in ancient Israel and elsewhere in the Levant have schematic depictions of two or three people with hands linked or raised, reaching toward each other. All the members of the…
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Abel Beth Maachah, Land of Israel
(Tel Avel Bet Ma‘akha, Israel)
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Iron Age IIA, 9th Century BCE