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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
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1951
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Artist Unknown
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Late 17th Century
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
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17th–18th Century
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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Pieter van Hoven
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1705
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Johann Valentin Schüler
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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Late 17th Century
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On the eve of the fourteenth [of Nisan], after reciting the evening prayer, you must light a wax candle and recite the blessing on removing your leavened foods. Then you must search in your room and…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres, Solomon Adahan
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Tétouan, Safavid Empire
(Tétouan, Morocco)
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1735
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Their custom on the night of Purim was for each individual to pray in his own private domain and home, and…
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini, Ḥayim Abulafia
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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1736
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And we may remove the [Seder] table, so that the young child should express wonder at why we are removing the table; for surely it would be appropriate to eat now that we are already…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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End of the 16th Century
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At the beginning of Purim, after evening prayer near the time when it gets dark, the charity warden brings with him an assortment of candles that are painted and nice looking, and he…
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Yuspa Shamash, Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire
(Worms, Germany)
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17th Century