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May this be written for a coming generation, that people yet to be created will praise Jah. For the signs and wonders that the most high God has performed for us, I am pleased to relate:
Know that in…
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Elijah Capsali
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Candia, Republic of Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1538
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This Sabbath hymn, Lekhah dodi (“Come, my beloved”), is now a prominent part of the Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath) evening service, first instituted in the sixteenth century. It has been…
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Abraham Farissol, Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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16th Century
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The words of the perfect scholar, the divine kabbalist, R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz (may the memory of the righteous be for the life of the World-to-Come):
Know that the pious one and myself, his…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1530s
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Her bitter soul is anguished, because of her ailing wound.
The city one teeming with people is desolate, the Holy City that she had inherited.
For the glorious, sweet land, tears descend like a…
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Michael Müllner, Netanel Crescas
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First Half of the 17th Century
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But when we live in houses of hewn stone…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Metz, Kingdom of France (Metz, France)
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1744
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In the name of the Lord:
My brothers and my friends, the inhabitants of Albanian Belgrade [Berat, Albania]: may all who are worthy merit seeing the salvation of the Lord. Hurry and send me the maḥzor…
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Shabbetai Tzvi
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1666
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Simeon ben Naphtali
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Marckolsheim, Kingdom of France (Marckolsheim, France)
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1662
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27. On the eve of the Sabbath they light the oven in the home of the beadle, where they bake cakes and roast what is required for the Sabbath. They also boil the pots for the needs of…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
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17th Century
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Human follies, silver and gold and possessions,
Last only shortly on earth, and like flies, they fly away.
Wealth flowers like abundant grain, or like a tree’s boughs,
It bears recognizable fruit…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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During the days of Shavuot, quite a number of householders, accompanied by their sons, their wives and their infant children, would rise early each morning and walk outside the city, and outside the…
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The Jewish Community of Corfu
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Corfu, Republic of Venice (Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1700