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These are the words of the covenant [see, e.g., Deuteronomy 28:69], the twenty-four enactments that the people of action of the holy society, which is in the holy city of Safed, may it be built and…
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Safed Kabbalists
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1577
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We the undersigned have taken it upon ourselves to be in one society, to serve the Lord, may He be blessed, and to busy ourselves with His Torah day and night, in accordance with that which our…
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Students of Isaac Luria
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1575
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Lo, here is seed [zera‘] for you (Genesis 47:23), blessed one of the Lord [berakh], his honor the eminent rabbi and great preacher and reprover, in honor of heaven, our teacher and rabbi, Berakh son…
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Abraham Isaac Ḥazak
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Zablotov, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Zabolotiv, Ukraine)
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1725/6
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And they permitted themselves to place a blemish in the holiness of heaven and the holiness of the study of the holy Torah, to place the filth of the primeval serpent, behaving according to their…
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Moses Ḥagiz
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
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Regarding this recent occurrence of some men going and walking around the Galilee and Judea [the region of Lithuania] and preaching in public without the permission or authorization of the local rabbi…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1667
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In the name of the blessed God.
By virtue of the Regulation made and published on the 18th of Sivan, Yr: 5471 [1711], holding those [boys] of the age of 16 years subject to the orders of the…
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The Jewish Community of Curaçao
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
Date:
1717
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These are the words that the divine man Moses, R. Moses Cordovero, may his memory be for a blessing for life in the world-to-come, spoke concerning that which man should do and live by, and there are…
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Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century