Showing Results 11 - 16 of 16
Public Access
Text
Your light is sweet and pleasing for my heart’s joy and gladness,
O my soul’s beloved, my full desire is that I never depart from your presence.
My plan, each day and night, is to find favor in the…
Contributor:
Eleazar Azikri
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1584–1588
Categories:
Public Access
Text
One may not behave frivolously in synagogues and study houses, including exhibiting such behaviors as laughter, teasing, and idle conversation. One may not eat or drink in them, nor may one…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1563
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
[And I read some words to this effect in the letter of R. Abraham Blipp—may the All-Merciful protect and redeem him—written to Venice on November 5, 1607, to our teacher, R. Judah—may the righteous be…
Contributor:
Abraham Blipp
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1607
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
On the Messiah and his circumstances, whether or not he has come.
Contributor:
Sébastien Leclerc, Leone Modena
Places:
Date:
1645
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
For man to resemble his Creator according to the secret of the Supernal Crown he must possess, too, many of the chief qualities of the divine providence.
- The quality of humility includes all qualities…
Contributor:
Moses Cordovero
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The concept of Love is further explained in the Zohar [II, Ki Tissa, 190b], where it is stated as follows:
The Torah contains within it love and brotherhood and truth. Abraham loved…
Contributor:
Elijah de Vidas
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1579