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A list of regulations passed in the Ashkenazic community of Safed, may it be sustained, by order of the officials, some rabbis, and certain members, for fifty years, from Shevat 12 in the year 5336…
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Moses Trani
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1576
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The Holy One, blessed be He, gave understanding, wisdom, knowledge, fear of sin, and generosity of soul to the eminent philanthropist, so that he should earn a good name and receive glory, his honor R…
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The Jewish Community of Maḥla (Egypt)
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Maḥla, Ottoman Empire
(Al Maḩallah al Kubrá, Egypt)
Date:
17th Century
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On this day, 25th Adar, 5490:
- A ban, enforceable by excommunication, on producing…
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The Jewish Community of Jerusalem
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1730
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We the undersigned hereby declare that to sustain the community and for the welfare and the peace of the communities of our city, of common accord we have issued for twenty years the following…
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The Jewish Community of Salonika
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1617
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These are the words that the divine man Moses, R. Moses Cordovero, may his memory be for a blessing for life in the world-to-come, spoke concerning that which man should do and live by, and there are…
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Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century
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We the undersigned have taken it upon ourselves to be in one society, to serve the Lord, may He be blessed, and to busy ourselves with His Torah day and night, in accordance with that which our…
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Students of Isaac Luria
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1575
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Considering the great harm and dangers that have befallen the religious communities of Israel on account of overdressing both by women and by young men, we, the undersigned honorable parnasim…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis
Places:
Tunis, Ottoman Empire
(Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1726
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These are the words of the covenant [see, e.g., Deuteronomy 28:69], the twenty-four enactments that the people of action of the holy society, which is in the holy city of Safed, may it be built and…
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Safed Kabbalists
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1577