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Artist Unknown
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1553
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The year 5480 of the creation of the earth and heaven, in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, the wailing of the oppressed increased. For then the hooligans began to cut off and harry the…
Contributor:
Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
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(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1651
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Look from the top of Amana (Song of Songs 4:8) and [see the type of] negotiation carried out faithfully [emunah]:
1. Be diligent in your transactions, to ensure that they are…
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Abraham ha-Levi Horowitz
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(Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century
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18 Elul 5502 [1742]
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The Jewish Community of Tykocin
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Tykocin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Tykocin, Poland)
Date:
1742
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Hear, O Israel, descendants of holy ones: see that newcomers have recently arrived intending to make grapes, but instead have produced wild grapes [see Isaiah 5:2]. There is no local foundation for…
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Anonymous
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Second Half of the 17th Century
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Our God is one. You are my God: Hallelujah!
Who created me, body and soul: Hallelujah!
You created Heaven and earth: Hallelujah!
We will praise You forever: Hallelujah!
You…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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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…
Contributor:
Johannes Alexander Böner, Joel Sirkes
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
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Says Moses, son to my Master, my father, R. Israel—may the memory of the righteous be for a blessing for the world to come—seeing that the illustrious author [Joseph Karo] of the Bet Yosef [Th…
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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1570
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Behold, I am aged and gray-headed—I know not the day of my death [see Genesis 27:2]! And when am I going to provide for my own house (Genesis 30:30), which I built, and for my children…
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Joel Sirkes
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1631–1640
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One who uses the Ineffable Name in this world will have a great punishment, and the reason for this is that he mentions holy letters in impurity, and combines that which is holy with that which is…
Contributor:
Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1549