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The polemical Judeo-Spanish work (written in Hebrew characters) Fuente clara (Clear Fountain; drawing on Psalm 84) was published in Salonika. Its anonymous author, a philosopher and physician…
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Unknown
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1595
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat.
And then…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565
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Simeon ben Shetaḥ would say: You should cross-examine the witnesses extensively, and take care with your words, lest they learn how to lie from them [m. Avot 1:9].
Solomon ha-Levi explained: The…
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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1553
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I have been considering for a long while responding with my opinion on the law and the truth concerning occasional improper events that occur thus. For years wars have raged between kings, as is well…
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Raphael Samuel ben Jacob Arditti
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1890/91
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We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons:
The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
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Isaac Bekhor Amarachi, Joseph ben Meir Sason
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1843
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If I have come to relate and tell, divulging the entire mystery of the Garden of Eden and the matters residing within it, of the species of trees, a book could…
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Joseph Taitatsak
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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The king assigned them portions of food and wine, each day on its day, from the king’s food and wine. They were to raise [the boys] three years; afterwards some of them would stand before the king…
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Samuel de Valerio
Places:
Chalandritsa, Ottoman Empire
(Chalandritsa, Greece)
Date:
1580
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For the leader. A psalm of David. The fool said in his heart there is no God . . . (Psalms 14:1–2).
Now [the psalmist] declares the reasoning of the fool, and what argument he has…
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Joseph Taitatsak
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
16th Century
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised.
Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it.
I the young one, Meir, son of our…
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Meir de Boton
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1565
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Says Moses, son of my master, our teacher R. Jacob Albelda:
My soul, my spirit, and my breath render most copious thanks, tenfold, unto the Lord of all things, may He be blessed and magnified, for all…
Contributor:
Moses Albelda
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
Before 1583