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In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, certain elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat down before me. And the word of the Lord came to me:
O mortal, speak to the…
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Shout, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth!
Break into shouting, O hills!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
And has taken back His afflicted ones in love. [ . . . ]
Swiftly your children are…
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Charles-Valentin Alkan
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Paris, French Empire
(Paris, France)
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1859
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When I was in Castile in the city of Zamora, tranquil and secure in my abode, I set my mind to inquire and explore matters of Torah and began to compose a book yielding lovely…
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Abraham Saba
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Ksar el-Kebir, Kingdom of Morocco
(Ksar El Kebir, Morocco)
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ca. 1500
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R. Isaac ben Abraham ben Judah ‘Akrish, may he rest in peace, from exile in Spain and Naples, said that he would not receive the proud waters [of baptism; see Psalms 124:5], and was driven out…
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Isaac Akrish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1575–1578
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All the letters in this beautiful new prayer book,
from beginning to end, I set with my own hands.
Gele, daughter of R. Moses the printer
and Frau Freide, who bore me among ten children, may they…
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Gele bat Moses ben Abraham Ger
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Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg
(Halle, Germany)
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1710
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Don’t overshadow anyone. Know that you have an obligation to observe 613 commandments, because many of them you have to perform, but they can be done conjointly; so that when one commandment is…
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Moses ben Gershon Parenzo, Abraham Farrar
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1627
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No decree can be nullified, but one can be changed by the Cause of causes.
The matters of the fastings and their cry (Esther 9:31)
In the first chapter of tractate…
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Menaḥem Rava
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
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16th Century
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1): In that part of the land of Canaan where his father had lived, similar to the verse: [To Mamre, to Kiryat…
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Ovadiah Sforno
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Bologna, Papal States
(Bologna, Italy)
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Before 1550
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The people of the land took Jehoahaz son of Josiah and made him king instead of his father in Jerusalem. Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king and he reigned three months in…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE