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Simeon ben Naphtali
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Marckolsheim, Kingdom of France
(Marckolsheim, France)
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1662
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Artist Unknown
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1500
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Artist Unknown
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Dordrecht, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Dordrecht, Netherlands)
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1590–1611
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17th Century
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The words of the perfect scholar, the divine kabbalist, R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz (may the memory of the righteous be for the life of the World-to-Come):
Know that the pious one and myself, his…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1530s
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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)
Date:
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 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