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Now, lo, I saw a dream and since then I am very feverish. May Iahmoliah attend to my welfare.
Now, if you wish, do not sell them. Let the children eat them. Lo, there do not remain any cucumbers.
Tran…
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Early 5th Century BCE
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Listen carefully to my words. When I was in the land of Safed, one night, when the sun had set, I was tired and weary, lying on my bed. I was asleep, but my heart was awake; my beloved was knocking…
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Asher Lemlein
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Istria, Holy Roman Empire (Istria, Croatia)
Date:
1500–1502
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1655
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I received your letter, and since you believed that I sent to you concerning matters of our Messiah of Truth, I shall fulfill the wishes of your heart and your feelings of deficiency, and I shall tell…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
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Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
1670
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This gravestone in the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands (est. 1614), that of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, is inscribed in memory of Mordechai Franco Mendes (d…
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Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)
Date:
1687 and 1696
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A dream question: clean yourself from all impurity and abstain from eating meat, drinking wine, and lying with a woman. And lie in a clean bed after ritually immersing—a stringent immersion, because…
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Unknown
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1729
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Illustrious sir, having frequently thought about and recalled many treatises which in the presence of Your Worship were practiced during the time when I enjoyed your divine…
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Moses Almosnino
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1564
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1): In that part of the land of Canaan where his father had lived, similar to the verse: [To Mamre, to Kiryat…
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Ovadiah Sforno
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Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)
Date:
Before 1550
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From B. d. S.
Sir,
Yesterday I received your letter, which was very welcome to me, as much because I wanted to hear some news from you as because I see that…
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Baruch Spinoza
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The Hague, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (The Hague, Netherlands)
Date:
1674
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Arthur Tress
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1974