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We, Leopold, elected Roman Emperor by the grace of God, in the name [of the House of Hapsburg], the name of our heirs and our descendants, with this letter proclaim publicly that we have graciously…
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Anonymous
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1703
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Question: From Rhodes. When the Lord expanded the borders [see Deuteronomy 19:8] of the dispersion of the diaspora and granted us a remnant and remainder in the kingdom of Turkey, He treated us with…
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David Ibn Abi Zimra
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
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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
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1567
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Reuben has the following claim against his wife. He was informed about her that she had prepared for herself a concoction that would kill the child in her womb, which she had conceived…
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Johannes Alexander Böner, Joel Sirkes
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
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For Joseph Kohen Balarin of blessed memory, to his brother, in Prague.
Wisdom brings strength to the wise, dear brother from a city of strength, elevated leader and rabbi, my brother and head, may…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1615
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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)
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ca. 1577
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We are therefore obliged to examine the words of the living God, which are expressed through the wonderful wise men who have received the truth [i.e., kabbalists], the foundation of the Torah. The…
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Aernout Naghtegaal, Isaac Aboab da Fonseca
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1636
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I admit my guilt in that Christmas past, my said husband Juan Estevan told me how his daughter Inés had ascended to the sky and saw there the deceased and the living; and how the conversos were very…
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Beatriz Ramírez of Alcázar
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Herrera del Duque, Spanish Empire
(Herrera del Duque, Spain)
Date:
1500/1501
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In Jewish tradition, the command to “bind them [God’s words] as a sign on your hand and let them serve as a symbol on your forehead” is understood as requiring passages from the Torah to be written on…
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Qumran, Land of Israel
(Khirbat Qumrān, Israel)
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Second Temple Period
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Banī Ḩasan ash Shurūq, Egypt
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Middle Kingdom (Egypt), 20th–18th Century BCE