El libro des los acuerdos (The Book of Accounts)

Wardens of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of London

1664

Escama [Regulation] Added to the 42 Preceding

43. To avoid the scandal and hindrance that it causes in this Kahal Kados on the occasions when English ladies come to see the ceremonies of our religion, it is forbidden, and ordained that from this day henceforth no Yahid [full member—Ed.] of this Kahal Kados may bring them to it, nor rise, nor move from his place to receive them, nor [persons] of any other nation that may be, in order to accompany them, or give them place; and the same applies to the gentlemen who may come to this Synagogue, reserving to the Señores of the Mahamad [board of governors—Ed.] the power to act as they ought according as may seem good to them; for thus it befits the respect due to this holy place; and he who should do the contrary shall be excluded from the Synagogue, and action shall be taken to the full degree that may seem good to the Mahamad which is or shall be in office. And peace be upon all Israel.

David Abrabanel Dormido.

Eliau de Lima.

Moseh Baruh Louzada.

Translated by Lionel D. Barnett.

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Notes

Words in brackets appear in the original, unless added by editor.

Credits

Wardens of the Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue of London, from El Libro de Los Acuerdos: Being the Records and Accompts of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue of London from 1663 to 1681, trans. Lionel D. Barnett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1931), p. 15. Used with permission of The Society of Heshaim, the Spanish and Portuguese Jews’ Congregation, London.

Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.