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A scion from Portugal by the name of Solomon Molkho sprouted forth from the trunk of Israel [see Isaiah 11:1] and spent his youth among the scribes of the king—where they had been scattered since the…
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Solomon Molkho
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1531/32
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
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Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
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Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire (Boskovice, Czech Republic)
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1760
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On the twelfth of the month of Elul in the year five thousand four hundred and eighty-nine, Menaḥem the scribe and teacher of young children in the community of Dessau, became the father of Moses,…
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Isaac Euchel
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1788
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In those days, but especially since the year 1740, when Frederick the Great ascended the throne, various social circles in Berlin began zealously to acquire intellectual knowledge. Even among…
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Isaak Herzberg
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1907
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When I was born, I was given the name Manuel, after my grandfather, Manuel Alvares Pinto, as was said earlier. For this reason and because I was my father’s eldest son, my grandfather always had me…
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Isaac de Pinto
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1671
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The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…
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Barukh Uziel Hazaketto
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
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1550
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We return now to the narrative of our Lord’s doings.
After he had put the pure turban on his head, he made love to his Ashkenazi wife. She conceived; she bore him a son. On…
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Barukh of Arezzo
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Portland, United States of America
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ca. 1677
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Now comes the turn, with awe and reverence, awe and reverence without end, of my father, the pious, God-fearing, learned one, may his strength be for the Torah [see Esther 2:15], the supernal light…
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Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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17th Century
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Behold, I am aged and gray-headed—I know not the day of my death [see Genesis 27:2]! And when am I going to provide for my own house (Genesis 30:30), which I built, and for my children…
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Joel Sirkes
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1631–1640
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Gootie, my grandma, was a short, large-boned woman who made the kitchen her kingdom. She entered the living room only on special occasions—like Monday night to watch “I Love Lucy.” She had to think…
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Max Apple
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1994