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The words of the perfect scholar, the divine kabbalist, R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz (may the memory of the righteous be for the life of the World-to-Come):
Know that the pious one and myself, his…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
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1530s
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27. On the eve of the Sabbath they light the oven in the home of the beadle, where they bake cakes and roast what is required for the Sabbath. They also boil the pots for the needs of…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
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17th Century
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But when we live in houses of hewn stone…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
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1744
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During the days of Shavuot, quite a number of householders, accompanied by their sons, their wives and their infant children, would rise early each morning and walk outside the city, and outside the…
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The Jewish Community of Corfu
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Corfu, Republic of Venice
(Corfu, Greece)
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ca. 1700
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[ . . . ] Based on the above reasoning, you can see how wrong those people are who fast on the day of the birth of the new moon, as the whole reason for…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1731/32
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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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Sadigura, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Sadhora, Ukraine)
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1880
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24 December. Sunday. [ . . . ]
This morning my nephew’s circumcision. A short, bow-legged man, Austerlitz, who already has 2,800 circumcisions behind him, deftly executed the affair. The oper is…
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Franz Kafka
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1911
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VII.
The Marshalek.—His Duties.—The Serenade.—At The Bride’s “Main Quarters.”—The Reception at the Groom’s.—The Ritual of Seating of the Bride.—The Marshalek’s Improvisation.
The rituals and…
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Lev Levanda
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1880
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Religious forces are in fact only transfigured collective forces, that is, moral forces; they are made of ideas and feelings that the…
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Émile Durkheim
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1911