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To remove a demon [sheyd] from the body of a man or woman, or anything into which a male or female demon has entered
Take an empty flask and a white waxen candle, and recite this adjuration in…
Contributor:
Joseph Tirshom
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1550
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Hear my cry, O Lord,
Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.
Have mercy, fight my battle for me,
For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.
Long have I inhabited a foreign land,
Afflicted with…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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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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Anonymous
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1595
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These high officials were not accustomed to wearing European-style shirts. When they decided to dress in the European style, they asked a certain ham, Daniel Andjel, whose shop at the Women’s Market…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1881–1902
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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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The following incident occurred: On the holy Sabbath of ḥol ha-mo‘ed Passover in the year 5335 [1575], many virtuous individuals from the Lisbon congregation arose and came to an agreement among…
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Nicolas de Nicolay, Isaac Adarbi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
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We the undersigned hereby declare that to sustain the community and for the welfare and the peace of the communities of our city, of common accord we have issued for twenty years the following…
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The Jewish Community of Salonika
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1617
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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
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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…
Contributor:
Joseph Taitatsak
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
16th Century