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On June 7, 1690, Samuel de Isaac Senior Teixeira married Rachel Senior de Mattos in Hamburg. Their beautiful ketubah (marriage contract) depicts the couple under the wedding canopy, accompanied by…
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Artist Unknown
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1690
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Artist Unknown
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
1732
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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
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Israel Najara
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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wife of Menahem Levi Meshullami Simḥah
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1680/1
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Shalom Italia
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1654
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Artist Unknown
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17th–18th Century
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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
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Caspar Birckenholtz, Judah Alkaletz
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century