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Hear the word which the Lord has spoken to you, O House of Israel!
Thus said the Lord:
Do not learn to go the way of the nations,
And do not be dismayed by portents in the sky;
Let the nations be…
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Woe is me, my mother, that you ever bore me—
A man of conflict and strife with all the land!
I have not lent,
And I have not borrowed;
Yet everyone curses me. [ . . . ]
O Lord, you know—
Rememb…
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Thus said the Lord:
Cursed is he who trusts in man,
Who makes mere flesh his strength,
And turns his thoughts from the Lord.
He shall be like a bush in the desert,
Which does not sense the coming…
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord: “Go down to the house of a potter, and there I will impart My words to you.” So I went down to the house of a potter, and found him working at the…
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The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim a release among them— that everyone should set free his Hebrew…
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R. Isaac ben Abraham ben Judah ‘Akrish, may he rest in peace, from exile in Spain and Naples, said that he would not receive the proud waters [of baptism; see Psalms 124:5], and was driven out…
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Isaac Akrish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1575–1578
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When word reached Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a breach remained in it—though at that time I had not yet set up doors in the…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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First, we will describe how to travel from one’s land to Israel. There are many ways by which one can travel. One route is from Venice and another is from the city of Ofen [Budapest], but there is no…
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Gershon ha-Levi of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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1634/35
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Moses who was God’s unique messenger,
Who revealed the Path of God to humankind,
In God’s Presence at Mount Sinai
He received knowledge and insight,
The Torah, the Truth, and the Path
He accepted…
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‘Imrānī
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Isfahan, Ottoman Empire
(Isfahan, Iran)
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Early 16th Century
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I, David, son of King Solomon of blessed memory, from the Khibur Desert, arrived at the gate of the State of Rome on the fifteenth day of the month of First Adar in the year 5584 [1524]. A…
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David ha-Reuveni
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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1520s