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A male child becomes obligated to observe the commandments at the age of thirteen years and one day. Therefore, on the first day of his fourteenth year, a father grasps his son in his hand and says,…
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Ben Ish Ḥai
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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ca. 1894–1898
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This work is an anthology of various texts that provide precious foundations, crucial for the knowledge of the wisdom of kabbalah, hidden secrets that were revealed through the mightiest of heroes…
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Jacob ben Ḥayim
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1911
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[By “war”] I mean concrete war—rather than a war of words or an incomplete war of demonstrations. I am not in denial regarding the existence of these words or those demonstrations, and neither do I…
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Murād Faraj
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1912
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- Its sign is זש״הIt is year 2 of the Sabbatical cycle
- year 3 of the small lunar cycle 299year 9 of the large solar cycle 203year 1837 [sic] of the Destruction of the Temple, may it be built and…
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Ezra Dangur
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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1904
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Ezra Dangur
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1904
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Furthermore, with regard to a synagogue, one should be careful when leaving the synagogue not to leave with one’s back to the altar, where the Torah scroll is placed. Rather, one should face the holy…
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Elijah de Vidas
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1579
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[ . . . ] Last week, during the days of Hanukkah, we encountered…
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Israel of Jerusalem
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Beginning of the 16th Century
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I propose to set forth the faith of our ancestors—our prophets, our sages—forgotten by us these thousand years, because of the long duration of our exile. This faith was known to the Tannaim and most…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
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Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
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ca. 1670–1672
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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)
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Early 16th Century
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The superiority of this science was related in the Zohar at the end of the ‘Idra in section Naso.
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Rabbi Simeon cried, raised his voice, and said:
“Woe.” With these words which are…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second Half of the 16th Century