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And the work was finished on the eve of Sabbath, in
the month of Shebat, in the year 307, in the great
city of Venice which is under the rule of
the Signoria, may God increase their
glory, and in the…
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Cornelio Adelkind
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1547
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Asleep in songs and lullabies was my heart, while I was dreaming, imagining myself amidst poets, as eloquent and intelligent as the finest wine yeast.
From my drunken slumber an illustrious man…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1599
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To Freud, all forms of religious observance were foolish and superstitious. His wife Martha, on the other hand, took religion much more seriously, as her grandfather had been a prominent rabbi in…
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Ralph Steadman
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Kent, United Kingdom
Date:
1979
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A street. At the right the entrance to the synagogue, with steps and a portico. At the left the house of Aaron, before which are some chairs, in the shade of an awning. Some trees and…
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Herman Heijermans
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
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1898
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16. It is forbidden to read on Shabbos proverbs or parables of a secular character, erotic literature such as the book [by] Emanuel and likewise books about…
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Chofetz Chaim
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Radin, Russian Empire (Radun', Belarus)
Date:
1904
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The distinction between religious and secular music is not universally admitted. There is a considerable group of people, some of them very learned in the art and science of sound, who claim that…
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Joseph Reider
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1918
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Setting out from Elim, the whole Israelite community came to the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their…
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Prepare the feast
of perfect faith,
the delight of the Holy King.
Prepare the feast of the King.
This is the feast
of the Lesser Presence;
the Ancient Eminence and Field of Apples
assemble…
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Isaac Tyrnau, Shim’on Levi Gintsburg, Isaac Luria
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Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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ca. 1565
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- Jews hold the Sabbath, above all other feasts, with the greatest veneration on account of it being named so often in the Scripture and being ordered…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1637
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With God’s Help.
From one generation to the next, our ancestors have removed obstacles from the path of the people so that they not unwittingly stumble into sin [Isa 57:14], particularly [with respect…
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Isaiah Bassan
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1720