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Sukkah Decoration
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This micrographic drawing designed for a sukkah decoration is the best-known artwork of Israel David Luzzatto. Micrography, a form of drawing originally created by scribes, in which lines of miniature…

Contributor:

Israel David Luzzatto

Places:

Trieste, Habsburg Empire (Trieste, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1775

Subjects:

Sukkot, Crafts, Time, Art, Ritual objects

Categories:

Decorative arts, Ritual Objects
Paper with Hebrew text in the shape of an astrolabe.
Cyrus’ Proclamation and Rebuilding the Temple
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In the first year of King Cyrus of Persia, when the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah was fulfilled, the Lord roused the spirit of King Cyrus of Persia to issue a proclamation throughout…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE

Subjects:

Monarchy, Temple, Diaspora, Sukkot, Sacrifice
Stone cylinder inscribed with cuneiform.
Ta‘ame sukkah (Discourse on Sukkot): Account of His Printing Problems
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And in it they will find a commentary appropriate to everyone and in it many precious midrashim, sharp pilpulim, light and weighty, Sinai and uprooter of mountains (Berakhot 64a, that is both breadth…

Contributor:

Nathan Hannover

Places:

Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)

Date:

1652

Subjects:

Print, Holidays, Sukkot, Journalism

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Reportage
Issues of the Hour
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This period of time is marked by four phenomena. Three of them concern everyone, and one concerns religious youth specifically. 1. Despair…

Contributor:

Moshe Zvi Neriah

Places:

Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

1939

Subjects:

Sukkot, Assimilation, Yishuv, Diaspora, Halakhah, Speeches

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Speeches