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Question: Is a proper get [divorce certificate] necessary in the following circumstance: a certain man married a young Jewish woman, and was with her in the manner of men and women, but after some…
Contributor:
Joseph Pallache
Places:
İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir Province, Turkey)
Date:
1896
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The Hakham Rabbi Abraham Monson, may God protect him, was a resident of Tétouan, where he was born and raised among his siblings and relatives. When he reached the appropriate age he married a woman…
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Judah ‘Ayyash
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
1737
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I was asked by a resident in London concerning a portable electric lamp called “Kosher Lamp” which has a separate upper part which is made to direct the light or to cover it up altogether by twisting…
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Chanoch HaCohen Ehrentreu
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
2003
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Question:In America there is now a notable general rise in religion. The membership of religious organizations has grown, religious gatherings attract a larger audience, etc. Likewise in Jewish life…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1954
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The rich and honorable Moshe haCohen, resident of the city Castoria may God protect it, says as follows: he has been given a bad wife, and that during their marital life…
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Johannes Alexander Böner, Aaron ha-Kohen Peraḥia
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1701
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In answer to those who ask me whether or not it is permitted to paint the walls of the synagogue with pictures of grass, trees, and calyxes, we researched the question and our answer is as follows:
At…
Contributor:
Samuel Archevolti
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
Late 16th or Early 17th Century