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In the year 303 [1543], Joseph Catalan claimed that he had married his betrothed Regina, daughter of Moses Ḥayim, on Yom Kippur in front of the gate of her father’s courtyard, by giving her a shawl…
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Joseph Ibn Lev
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1567
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Question: The following incident occurred: The gentlemen, R. Abraham Vidal, may he rest in peace, was married to the modest lady, Estrella, sister of the fine young man, R. David Pinto, may God…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Jacob Castro
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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Kinyan, or symbolic acquisition of the partnership, is the third traditional element of partnership law embodied in the b’rit ahuvim, and it is fraught with…
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Rachel Adler
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
1998
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On Tuesday afternoon prayers, when the cantor reaches Taḥanun [prayers of supplication], the groom walks to the door of the synagogue while the congregation recites Taḥanun, and…
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Johann Christoph Georg Bodenschatz, Georg Paul Nusbiegel, Judah Leib Kirchheim
Places:
Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1631