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[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
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David Attias
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire (Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778
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ca. 1770
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Isaac ben Samuel Bassan, Giacomo Rufinelli
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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Most Distinguished Sir,
The undersigned, your most humble servant, is a wretched woman of twenty-three years of age. I was married for five and a half years to this Mr. Lucio Luzzatto, [but] I was…
Contributor:
Relle Luzzatto Morschene
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Trieste, Holy Roman Empire (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1794
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Question: . . . When Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi was visiting this land, he told me that he printed sixteen megillot on parchment prepared for this purpose [i.e., to be used for the scrolls—Ed.]. When I…
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Shalom Italia, Moses Provenzali
Places:
Mantua, Holy Roman Empire (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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“I, too, have authority, the authority of the Lord, blessed be He, of the Shekinah and all the members of the Heavenly Academy.”
[Padua, 16 March 1730]
Oh, thou great Prince, lofty pillar, Gaon R…
Contributor:
Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
Places:
Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1730