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Portrait painting of bearded man in turban holding a book and facing viewer.

Portrait of Hezekiah da Silva

Born in Livorno, Tuscany, in 1656, Hezekiah ben David de Silva was a scholar best known for his halakhic work Peri ḥadash (New Fruit). De Silva studied in Syria and later headed a yeshiva in Jerusalem…

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Print of two scenes, both with French text below: the top of baby on man's lap surrounded by people with bed in background, the bottom showing many people in ornate room with baby crib.

Circumcision Ceremony

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Torat ha-‘olah (Law of the Burnt Offering): On the Lunar Calendar

I found it written somewhere that the eleven offerings brought on Rosh ḥodesh [the New Moon] correspond to the eleven extra days of the solar year over and above those of the…

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