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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1849
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Question 5: What blessing should one recite over coffee and tea, and is there any problem with drinking them on Passover?
Response: I will answer the questions in order. Regarding the blessing, it has…
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Johann Adam Boller, Jacob Reischer
Places:
Metz, Kingdom of France (Metz, France)
Date:
1719
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Cornelis de Bruyn
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1714
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At the time when the florid season,
joyful springtime of life,
the tender infancy of its ardent age,
made its first step in the Orient
placing flower before Aprils
to my first juvenile…
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Diego Basurto Henríquez
Places:
Rouen, Kingdom of France (Rouen, France)
Date:
1649
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Since the theme of the Noachide commandments has arisen for consideration, I shall mention here what I presented before the assembly of rabbis in the great city [Paris] in the year 5567 [1807], and it…
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Aaron Worms of Metz
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Metz, Kingdom of France (Metz, France)
Date:
1831
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The Jews are everywhere, in the old world and in the new. They can be found in Jamaica, in New England, in Washington’s America as well as in Bolívar’s, and even in Austral lands. If this people were…
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Léon Halévy
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1828
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Robert le diable (Robert the Devil) is an opera in five acts composed by Giacomo Meyerbeer between 1827 and 1831. One of the first grand operas, it caused a sensation when it debuted at the Paris…
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Giacomo Meyerbeer
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Paris, Kingdom of France (Paris, France)
Date:
1831
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In the name of God.The parnasim [community leaders] and the gabbai general [warden] of this holy congregation together with the elders all present, as well as the ḥakhamim Joseph Falcon, rabbi…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Bordeaux
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Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (Bordeaux, France)
Date:
1736
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We the undersigned have agreed that, seeing the difficulty that there is to collect what every particular member of our Nation must…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Bordeaux
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Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (Bordeaux, France)
Date:
1730–1744
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The will of the creator is that the world should be sustained, expanded, and populated daily by man, whom he shaped for his glory. That is, indeed, why he created this great machine, and…
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Abraham Vaez
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Kingdom of France (Bayonne, France)
Date:
1692