Showing Results 41 - 50 of 69
Public Access
Text
Question: Whether in those marriages contracted under civil marriage law—without betrothal according to the rite of Moses and Israel—the woman can leave without a get [Jewish religious writ of divorce…
Contributor:
David Tsvi Hoffmann
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1899
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Question: Reuven has a single daughter, soft and delicate, whom he married to Ḥanokh ben Judah with a dowry of a thousand sultanish. The bride is twelve years old, and in her father’s home she was…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
There was a certain man in our country who had become totally impoverished, and who had betrothed his elder daughter to her appropriate mate. During the period of her betrothal—the date fixed for…
Contributor:
Moses Isserles
Places:
Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
These ordinances have been decreed by us on Thursday, the twenty-first of Tammuz, corresponding to the twenty-first of June, of the year 5314 (1554) here at Ferrara.
- Printers shall not be permitted to…
Contributor:
The Synod of the Italian Jewish Communities
Places:
Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1554
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Slaughterers and examiners of the meat must be God-fearing individuals who will examine the knife very thoroughly. In any event, trusted men should be appointed to examine the slaughtering knife…
Contributor:
The Council of the Four Lands
Places:
Date:
1607
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Every householder is required to have his son taught in school at least until he is twelve years old. He must take care of him and pay his tuition as much as he can afford. If he is unable to pay, he…
Contributor:
The Jewish Communities of the Land of Moravia
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1650
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
And now, you, my brethren, my people of holy communities in all the places you live, for several years I have been unable to send you reproaches and words of ethics and righteousness. . . . And since…
Contributor:
Samuel ha-Levi Barazani
Places:
Barazan, Ottoman Empire (Barazan, Iran)
Date:
17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
Text endorsing regulations concerning the playing of instrumental music and other entertainments, and the night-time bridal procession, drafted by me with the powerful endorsement of the sages—may…
Contributor:
Peter Fehr, The Jewish Community of Salonika
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1654
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
Image
Question 4: Reuben, a young Torah scholar from the city of Tiberias, contracted a marital arrangement with Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Jacob, from the city of Sepphoris. This is the text of the…
Contributor:
Joseph Katzabi
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Second Half of the 17th Century
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who created His world for the purpose of mankind, and, from all the different sorts of men, chose for Himself a nation as a special treasure—namely…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542