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Whereas it is true and certain that the Lady Simcha—may she be blessed above women in the tent—daughter of the honorable and exalted R. Hefetz Conforte—may his soul repose in Paradise—summoned us, the…
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Simcha Conforte
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Skopje, Ottoman Empire
(Skopje, North Macedonia)
Date:
1730
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Behold, an agency was sent to me from the two groups of the yeshiva heads coming to judgment, in whose hand was a written deed, signed by fit and proper witnesses, that the widow, the aforesaid lady…
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Rebecca ha-Levi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1730
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[Hebrew:] We the undersigned, when the honorable old lady, Sra. Blanca, widow of R. Daniel Yeshurun (may his…
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Blanca Yeshurun
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1651
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When our teacher Rabbi Solomon, who was a rabbi here in Aleppo, passed away without any male children, the rabbis [of the city] consulted among themselves, and with the elders of the people and the…
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Raphael Laniado
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1787
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This is a short essay on the debate concerning practical halakhic issues that took place between the sages of Safed and those of Jerusalem wherein the sages of Safed saw fit to implement the ruling…
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Levi Ibn Ḥabib
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1538
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The deed of will which is thus worded. In the community of Israel we have faithfully declared that we the undersigned are witnesses that it is a true and firm fact that the deceased lady, Sra. Rachel…
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Rachel Molina
Places:
Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire
(Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1672