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Contributor:
Drora Dominey
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1989
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It should be known that after her immersion, every woman should persuade her husband and see to it that he study before he lies with her. And so we find it written regarding Boaz, “And Boaz ate…
Contributor:
Benjamin Slonik
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1577
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To my lord Elyashib: May YHWH seek your welfare! And now, give to Shemaryahu an x-measure and to the Kerosite give a y-measure. And as for the matter which you commanded me, it is well. He (it?) is…
Places:
Arad, Land of Israel
(Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
Date:
Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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In the name of God, in Pisa, the nineteenth of Shevat in the year 5373, February 2, 1613
Whereas the members of the mahamad [board of governors] and those accompanying them, including Ḥakham Azaria…
Contributor:
The Jewish Community of Pisa
Places:
Pisa, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
(Pisa, Italy)
Date:
1613
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Prepare the feast
of perfect faith,
the delight of the Holy King.
Prepare the feast of the King.
This is the feast
of the Ancient Eminence;
the Lesser Presence and Field of Apples
assemble…
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Isaac Luria
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ca. 1565
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This is a short compendium of the sheḥitot [rules for kosher slaughter] taken from Rabbenu Moshe [Maimonides] and Rabbenu Ya‘akob [Jacob ben Asher], without any errors about what is required, and with…
Contributor:
Anonymous
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1510
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In the tenth year, to Shemaryaw, from Beerayim:
a jar of aged wine.
Gara (son of) Elisha 2.
Uzza (son of) Ka[?]besh (?) 1.
Eliba (son of) N[ . . . ] 1.
Baala (son of) Elisha 1.
Yadayaw 1.
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Samaria, Land of Israel
(Kaleh Qaţār-e Soflá, Iran)
Date:
First Quarter of the 8th Century BCE
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Credo in a kind of
American jewish Hamlet-like
bagel, too round for action
yet leavened enough by contact
with the near-dead past—you call it
landscape, I call it history—to provide
a layered vantage…
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Bob Perelman
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1996
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Why is my back loaded with fine flour, while in my mouth there is no bread at all, but only straw? I drink well-water, though I carry wine. And the stick goes on fracturing my skull!
I live in rubble…
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Samuel Archevolti
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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A bath measure for the king.
Places:
Lachish, Land of Israel
(Tel Lakhish, Israel)
Date:
8th Century BCE