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Dear Parents:
I hope my letter will ease your mind. You can now be reassured and send me one of the family to Charleston, South Carolina. This is the place to which, with God’s help, we will go after…
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Rebecca Samuel
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Petersburg, United States of America
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ca. 1792
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Do you deem me to be hard and evil-hearted in that I should hasten to do a match during my period of mourning? Am I to forget the love of the wife of my youth, my pure dove, whom God graciously gave…
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Akiva Eger
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Märkisch Friedland, Kingdom of Prussia
(Mirosławiec, Poland)
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1796
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When the leaders of the people were assembled, all the tribes of Israel together, on the evening of the twenty-first day of Adar 5572, to oversee the affairs of the general community and the needs of…
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Akiva Eger
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Poznan, French Empire
(Poznan, Poland)
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1814
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Art, which gives men the means to persevere and cure some sicknesses, seems nowadays to depend on philosophy, which is that great and clear source that produces all that is luminous and useful. I am…
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Joseph Vita Castelli
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
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1774
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Deprived as we heretofore have been of the invaluable rights of free citizens, we now (with a deep sense of gratitude to the Almighty disposer of all events) behold a government erected by the Majesty…
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Moses Seixas
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Newport, United States of America
Date:
1790
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In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, which he sent with Uriah. He wrote in the letter as follows: “Place Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest; then fall back so that he…
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And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and their colleagues wrote to King Artaxerxes of Persia, a letter written in Aramaic and translated.
Aramaic: Rehum the commissioner and…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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When word reached Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab, and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a breach remained in it—though at that time I had not yet set up doors in the…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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May the Lord who dwells in Zion protect you from any grief and sorrow. To my beloved mother, the crown of my head, the pious Mrs. Rachel, may she live long. [ . . . ] You should know, my dear mom…
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Bernard Picart, Moses Sussman Zarit
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ca. 1560
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A halakhic decision written by Netanel Trabotto about singers [accompanying prayer in the synagogue] who repeated the word crown as well as the Name of God, and they…
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Netanel Trabotto, Abraham Graziano
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
(Modena, Italy)
Date:
1645