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Art, which gives men the means to persevere and cure some sicknesses, seems nowadays to depend on philosophy, which is that great and clear source that produces all that is luminous and useful. I am…
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Joseph Vita Castelli
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
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1774
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Although the troubles worsened and the city of Padua was in a state of turmoil [see Esther 3:15], there remained hope and divine mercy for the Jews, as not one person in the ghetto was dead or ill…
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Abraham Catalano
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
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1631
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One who becomes possessed by a demon should recite this adjuration three times, and it [the demon] will leave him, God willing.
In the explicit name [Shem ha-meforash] of the God of Israel may His…
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Anonymous
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1614
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On the signs of the plague and the poisonous fever that is called pestilence, and how a person should conduct himself to guard himself from them, in accordance with the nature of this lower…
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Abraham Yagel
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1587
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Servius de Levis
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Verona, Republic of Venice
(Verona, Italy)
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16th Century
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota, Jacob Tsahalon
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Ferrara, Papal States
(Ferrara, Italy)
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1683
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ca. 1600
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Remember me, O my God, for the good (Nehemiah 5:19). Amen
I began to write the first Torah Scroll, with the help of God, today, 2 Heshvan, the twenty-second of October, in the year 5302 [1541]. It…
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Meir ben Ephraim of Padua
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
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1541–1580
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Now, after God has made known to you all of this by means of the toil of my hands, having gathered and bound them together, may the strength of my hand grow to write to you and to present before you…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Italy)
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Mid–16th Century
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Most Distinguished Sir,
The undersigned, your most humble servant, is a wretched woman of twenty-three years of age. I was married for five and a half years to this Mr. Lucio Luzzatto, [but] I was…
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Relle Luzzatto Morschene
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Trieste, Holy Roman Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1794