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There is a matter well known and widely publicized among all those who have come through the gates of our city, Constantinople [Istanbul], may God preserve it. . . . [I]t occurred about two years…
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Isaac Akrish
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1858
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[ . . . ] Each man should raise his children to Torah and good deeds. Each man should always ensure that his children learn Torah while they are still young and he should have them learn…
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Isaac ben Eliyakim of Posen
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1620
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[ . . . ] Some [Jewish] people have children who may be likened to seeds, others who can be likened to vegetables, and yet others, to thorns. When parents raise their children in the ways of Torah…
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Shaul Shoḥet
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1915/16
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And now Blimele, dear child,
Stop—stop playing now.
No time for that.
We can be called at any minute
To leave our poor home
—A lonely boat on an island of sand—
And be hurled into the midst
Of a…
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Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh
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Lodz, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
Date:
1942
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According to the rabbinic view, as soon as a boy has completed his thirteenth year he is required to fulfill all the ceremonial laws, although previously he was excused from some, was not permitted to…
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Isaac Asher Francolm
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia
(Wrocław, Poland)
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1840
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Abraham Chajkes was famous throughout the town, nay, even throughout the entire district, as a decent, “solid,” wealthy merchant. [ . . . ]
He gave his growing children the best education according to…
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Wilhelm Feldman
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Kraków, Russian Empire
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1889
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Why should I write to you about myself? Nothing has happened in the meantime in my personal life. My son is still with me, as before. He is still an Extern. He knows the gymnasium [university…
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Yehoshu‘a Ḥana
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Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
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1909
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Circumcision has so peculiar a veneration among the present Jews, that if all other parts of their Religion were to be changed, this like Mount…
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Lancelot Addison
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Milston, Kingdom of England
(Milston, United Kingdom)
Date:
1675
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Lord of the world, my God,
I humbly beg You, with a broken heart,
And with my weak body,
To confirm my baby in Torah,
As a person of honor and riches.…
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Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1648
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[ . . . ] 5. When one wishes to go to the synagogue, he should say, “I will go to the synagogue for the sake of the unification of the presence of the Holy One and to raise it from its fall,” as…
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Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
17th Century