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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1669
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Jane Logemann
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1995
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Contributor:
Simeon ben Naphtali
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Marckolsheim, Kingdom of France
(Marckolsheim, France)
Date:
1662
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The use of wall niches for Torah scrolls was a feature of some of the earliest synagogues and continues today in Mizrahi communities. This striking faience-tile mosaic structure would have decorated a…
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Isfahan, Safavid Empire
(Isfahan, Iran)
Date:
16th Century
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Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish. He said:
In my trouble I called to the Lord,
And He answered me;
From the belly of Sheol I cried out,
And You heard my voice.
You cast…
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Biblical Period
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Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us;
Behold, and see our disgrace!
Our heritage has passed to aliens,
Our homes to strangers.
We have become orphans, fatherless;
Our mothers are like widows.
W…
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This is a prayer book for women in Ladino for the whole year, with its order of blessings at the end. And the order for washing the hands and many other laws applicable to all of the most common…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565
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These are the “prayers” that Brites Henriques recited and the notary transcribed.
Every Morning [Prayers]
Praised be the Lord
Who is so enlightened,
May you, My Lord, be served
By making me…
Contributor:
Brites Henriques
Places:
Lisbon, Portuguese Empire
(Lisbon, Portugal)
Date:
1674
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Human prayer that is properly intended is above, in the supernal depths, according to the secret of the point of Zion; and there is the secret place of the holy…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century
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Hear, O Israel, descendants of holy ones: see that newcomers have recently arrived intending to make grapes, but instead have produced wild grapes [see Isaiah 5:2]. There is no local foundation for…
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Unknown
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Second Half of the 17th Century