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Schwerin, 18 May 1772
15 Iyar 5532 to the Jewish counting
To the man possessed of abundant dominion, wisdom, and understanding, renowned for his knowledge, whose name is spoken of in the far-flung…
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Rabbis of Schwerin
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Schwerin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Schwerin, Germany)
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1772
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Our dear brethren, Children of Israel, perhaps the time has now come to repair the breaches in our ranks; let us return to uphold the Torah of the Almighty with all our strength. Who will be the…
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Ḥayim of Volozhin
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Volozhin, Russian Empire
(Valozhyn, Belarus)
Date:
1803
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Resolved, by the French deputies professing the religion of Moses, that the following Declaration shall precede the answers returned to the questions proposed by the Commissioners of His…
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Grand Sanhedrin (France)
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Paris, French Empire
(Paris, France)
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1807
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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
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1721/23
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Question: Reuven has a single daughter, soft and delicate, whom he married to Ḥanokh ben Judah with a dowry of a thousand sultanish. The bride is twelve years old, and in her father’s home she was…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
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Behold I request of all standing at the gate to knock,
And he who wishes to enter deep within this composition of mine,
Let him understand and be wise and contemplate the introduction I have composed…
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Yeḥiel Heilperin
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(Minsk, Belarus)
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ca. 1697
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Regarding those who fight one another inside the synagogue over the seats which each one has designated for himself, as when one is late in arriving and finds that another person is sitting in his…
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Jacob Huli
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1732
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This disunity among us, the lack of piousness for one another, the civil war of murmurings in places where conversations and visits occur, evils that have caused the past and…
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain
(London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1723
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And just as a person finds pleasant only such food as he has prepared himself, in accordance with what he wishes to eat, and has no desire whatsoever to depend upon his neighbor’s table, so too, he…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Friedberg, Germany)
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Mid–16th Century
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Question 5: What blessing should one recite over coffee and tea, and is there any problem with drinking them on Passover?
Response: I will answer the questions in order. Regarding the blessing, it has…
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Johann Adam Boller, Jacob Reischer
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
Date:
1719