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[ . . . ] But before we come to analyze the dreadful calamity [i.e., the drought] that has befallen us, and before we come to see what is the putrid humor harbored in our midst…
Contributor:
Shimon Aghasi
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1912
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A crucial and fundamental principle is the proper rearing of children. The Torah has stated: And you shall teach them [the words of Torah] to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19), for that is the…
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Romeyn de Hooghe, Isaiah Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1623
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For the leader. A psalm of David. The fool said in his heart there is no God . . . (Psalms 14:1–2).
Now [the psalmist] declares the reasoning of the fool, and what argument he has…
Contributor:
Joseph Taitatsak
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
16th Century
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And it came to pass in the days of Sultan Murad [IV], King of Turkey, may his majesty be exalted, in the third year of his reign, which is the year 5385 from creation [1625], the upright prince…
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Unknown
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1627
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From the day that God confused all the languages of the land [see Genesis 11:9], through the bitter and rapid exile of the expulsion from Spain, since then all good things have ended for us; our glory…
Contributor:
Abraham Ibn Ya‘ish
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1505/6