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All my bones say: O Lord, who is like you?
My palate speaks your praise, O my Rock, my Redeemer, my King;
You bring light to my darkness and bring me out of destruction.
The…
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Meshulam Zimmel ben Moses of Polna, Jacob Ibn Tsur
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Fez, Kingdom of Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
Beginning of the 18th Century
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21. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we pray as on the first day, except that the liturgical poems are different. [ . . . ]
22. And the Musaf service is as on the first day, except that we do not…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres, Joseph Kosman
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1718
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May He Who blessed our fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, Moses and Aaron, David and Solomon, bless this entire holy congregation together with all the holy congregations; they and their wives, their…
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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Question: The following incident occurred: The gentlemen, R. Abraham Vidal, may he rest in peace, was married to the modest lady, Estrella, sister of the fine young man, R. David Pinto, may God…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Jacob Castro
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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No one may accommodate non-Jews [in the synagogue] without the permission of the mahamad [board of governors].
In the past, it was promulgated that no person may get up from his place to go to greet…
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Pieter van den Berge, The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1640
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A halakhic decision written by Netanel Trabotto about singers [accompanying prayer in the synagogue] who repeated the word crown as well as the Name of God, and they…
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Netanel Trabotto, Abraham Graziano
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1645
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A letter from his honor R. Samuel Corcos, son of his honor R. Abraham, of blessed memory, a teacher in the holy community of Senigallia, which he sent to the…
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Samuel Corcos, Abraham Graziano
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Senigallia, Papal States (Senigallia, Italy)
Date:
1645
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This is a short compendium of the sheḥitot [rules for kosher slaughter] taken from Rabbenu Moshe [Maimonides] and Rabbenu Ya‘akob [Jacob ben Asher], without any errors about what is required, and with…
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Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1510
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I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…
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David Abenatar Melo
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Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (Hamburg, Germany)
Date:
1626
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Don’t overshadow anyone. Know that you have an obligation to observe 613 commandments, because many of them you have to perform, but they can be done conjointly; so that when one commandment is…
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Moses ben Gershon Parenzo, Abraham Farrar
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1627