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- The mahamad [congregation board] shall have supreme authority over everything. And no one shall be able to contravene the decisions taken and promulgated by the said mahamad, nor shall they sign any…
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Romeyn de Hooghe, Kahal Talmud Torah of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1639
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To the city of London, to the complete sage R. Solomon Ayalon, in the year 1697.
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Isaack Luttichuys, The Jewish Community of Prague, Jacob Sasportas
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1697
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Since the law prohibits one, in no uncertain terms, from depicting figures, the question one may ask is how Jews have had all manner of paintings in their homes? And it is not enough to say that only…
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Moses Raphael d’Aguilar
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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17th Century
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Turn from evil and do good.
Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…
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Isaac de Matatia Aboab
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1685
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Question 1: May our teacher and master, the great rabbi, who sits on the throne of halakhic rulings, please instruct and enlighten us regarding an episode that unfolded here in our city of Pisa, may…
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Simeon ben Naphtali, Jacob Senior
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Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany (Pisa, Italy)
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Mid– to Late 17th Century
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Behold, we have before us the head of the rationalists [or “rational theologians”], Maimonides, may his memory be for a blessing. In chapter three of Hilkhot teshuvah [Mishneh Torah, Laws of…
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Saul Levi Mortera
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1636
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However, in our many sins, she is Zion, there is none who cares for her (Jeremiah 30:17). Consider the question you asked, speaking like an enemy without knowledge [see Job 34:34]. For it follows the…
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Moses Ḥagiz
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1707
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On the twenty-fourth day of the counting [of the Omer] may there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. The handmaids of the emperor’s house would sing his praises: “no eye-shadow…
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Solomon Luria
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Mid–16th Century
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On the thirty-third day of the counting [of the Omer, i.e., Lag b’Omer]. May there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. May God continuously save the beautiful pearl, for whom the…
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Moses Isserles
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Mid–16th Century
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No one may accommodate non-Jews [in the synagogue] without the permission of the mahamad [board of governors].
In the past, it was promulgated that no person may get up from his place to go to greet…
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Pieter van den Berge, The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640