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Its sign is ה״שז
It is year 2 of the Sabbatical cycle
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year 3 of the small lunar cycle 299
year 9 of the large solar cycle 203
year 1837 [sic] of the Destruction of the Temple, may it be built and…
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Ezra Dangur
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1904
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The enlightened will awaken, and he who understands will rise up to waken his soul, which will speak to his body; and his body will speak with his evil inclination.
And thus, the soul will…
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Elijah ha-Kohen ha-Itmari
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1712
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The Hakham Rabbi Abraham Monson, may God protect him, was a resident of Tétouan, where he was born and raised among his siblings and relatives. When he reached the appropriate age he married a woman…
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Judah ‘Ayyash
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Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1737
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Ezra Dangur
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
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1904
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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1858–1859
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The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life…
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Johannes Alexander Böner, Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1701
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He will surely come with songs of joy, carrying the child, in the full assembly. My friends, wait here for the bridegroom of blood.
He should be coming down the road. Why is the child so late? You…
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Joseph Bibas
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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Early 16th Century
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May the bridegroom rejoice and the roses multiply, let sorrows fade away and let the young, old, and simple-minded understand. May the grooms be joyful with strophic poetry (shirot) and songs (renanot…
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Saliḥ ibn Yaḥya
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Sanaʽa, Ottoman Empire
(Sanaa, Yemen)
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1717–1740
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Artist Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1845
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Terah’s wife is pregnant
day after day she turned pale,
she already knew what she had
but she did not reveal it to her husband.
One day she went out to fields and vineyards,
she found a cavern and…
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Unknown
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(Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia)
Date:
ca. 1800