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Question 5: What blessing should one recite over coffee and tea, and is there any problem with drinking them on Passover?
Response: I will answer the questions in order. Regarding the blessing, it has…
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Johann Adam Boller, Jacob Reischer
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
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1719
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Avot 5:6: Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight: The mouth of the earth, the mouth of the well, the mouth of [Balaam’s] ass, the rainbow, the manna, the rod, the shamir-worm…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1589
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
Date:
1724
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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Johann Adam Boller
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1706
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This Purim tray from the seventeenth century was made in Hamburg, Germany. A fine repoussé piece, its center is adorned with a court scene, complete with a ruler sitting on a raised throne, surrounded…
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Artist Unknown
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Free Imperial City of Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire
(Hamburg, Germany)
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17th Century
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Matheus Staedlein
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1716–1735
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Johann Valentin Schüler
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1680–1720
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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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Question: . . . When Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi was visiting this land, he told me that he printed sixteen megillot on parchment prepared for this purpose [i.e., to be used for the scrolls—Ed.]. When I…
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Shalom Italia, Moses Provenzali
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Mantua, Holy Roman Empire
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560