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Reuben spoke in the marketplace with two men, inviting them to come to his house for the purpose of giving them the monies accrued from a business partnership, and they entered his house…
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Yom Tov ben Israel Jacob Algazi
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1800
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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…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1563
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A copy of the letter from the perfect sage R. Samuel Norzi, of blessed memory, in which he seeks to permit, as per his opinion, the singers [in the synagogue] to…
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Samuel Isaac Norzi, Abraham Graziano
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Senigallia, Papal States
(Senigallia, Italy)
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1645
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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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But when we live in houses of hewn stone…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
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1744
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During the days of Shavuot, quite a number of householders, accompanied by their sons, their wives and their infant children, would rise early each morning and walk outside the city, and outside the…
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The Jewish Community of Corfu
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Corfu, Republic of Venice
(Corfu, Greece)
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ca. 1700
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[ . . . ] Based on the above reasoning, you can see how wrong those people are who fast on the day of the birth of the new moon, as the whole reason for…
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Anonymous
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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1731/32
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In the year 303 [1543], Joseph Catalan claimed that he had married his betrothed Regina, daughter of Moses Ḥayim, on Yom Kippur in front of the gate of her father’s courtyard, by giving her a shawl…
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Joseph Ibn Lev
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1567
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1. “If you’re planting a tree and you hear Mashiah has come, first finish planting and then run to the city gates to tell him Shalom” (Yochanan Ben Zakkai).
Therefore: Plant a tree somewhere as a…
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Arthur Waskow
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1973
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In the new religious revival, the theologians and philosophers have it easy; they can battle about the nature of revelation endlessly in the pages of Commentary. Parents and householders, on the other…
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Ruth Gay
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1951