Showing Results 1 - 10 of 10
Public Access
Text
On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites assembled, fasting, in sackcloth, and with earth upon them. Those of the stock of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood…
Places:
Date:
Persian Period, 5th–4th Century BCE
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A song. A psalm of the Korahites.
The Lord is great and much acclaimed in the city of our God,
His holy mountain—
fair-crested, joy of all the earth,
Mount Zion, summit of Zaphon,
city of the…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Sing to the Lord a new song,
sing to the Lord, all the earth.
Sing to the Lord, bless His name,
proclaim His victory day after day.
Tell of His glory among the nations,
His wondrous deeds, among…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The man should not purchase meat until he has taken counsel with his wife to see which type of meat she wants him to take, so that the wife cannot later say that it is dark meat…
Contributor:
Eliezer Shem-Tov Papo
Places:
Date:
1872–1874
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A psalm of Asaph.
O God, heathens have entered Your domain,
defiled Your holy temple,
and turned Jerusalem into ruins.
They have left Your servants’ corpses
as food for the fowl of heaven,
and the…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
But Moses implored the Lord his God, saying, “Let not Your anger, O Lord, blaze forth against Your people, whom You delivered from the land of Egypt with great power and with a mighty hand. Let…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
The three problems that I first asked are explained in regard to all of that which I have said. The first: Why is it called the “Holy Land” and the “Holy Temple”? This is according to the fact that it…
Contributor:
Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik, Isaac Karo
Places:
Date:
Beginning of the 16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The Lord spoke once more to His beloved people on the occasion of our teacher Moses wishing to see His divine glory: no man shall…
Contributor:
Isaac Orobio de Castro
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1670
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
It has been clarified for you that the survival of Israel in their state of exile depends on their unity and their connection with each other, and their separation from the idolatrous nations. It is…
Contributor:
Judah Loew
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1599
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
No one may accommodate non-Jews [in the synagogue] without the permission of the mahamad [board of governors].
In the past, it was promulgated that no person may get up from his place to go to greet…
Contributor:
Pieter van den Berge, The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640