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[Belonging to Tobshillem/Tobshalem (?)] son of Zakkur the healer.
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City of David, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Ioannes Aloysius Foppa de Rota, Jacob Tsahalon
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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1683
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Samuel Benavente
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1699
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It was Shabbat morning. I was still lying in bed. My mother was already up and awake, wearing her clean white headdress. The other bed opposite mine, where my mother would sleep, was already made…
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I. M. Veisenberg
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1920
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A sick woman in a squalid rear tenement, so wretched and so pitiful that, in all the years since, I have not seen anything more appealing, determined me, within half an hour, to live on the East…
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Lillian Wald
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1915
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It is a not a simple cookbook that I am presenting herewith to my sisters in faith, although most room is given to the “kitchen.” This book of Cooking and Home Economics [Koch- und…
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Flora Wolff
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1888
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A foolish, misunderstood order by the Board of Education about cutting out “mandlen” [tonsils] from children’s throats is interpreted to mean a command to slit childrens’ throats and causes a wild…
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
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1906
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Ahab son of Omri became king over Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, and Ahab son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria for twenty-two years. Ahab…
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O you who dwell in the shelter of the Most High
and abide in the protection of Shaddai—
I say of the Lord, my refuge and stronghold,
my God in whom I trust,
that He will save you from the fowler’s…
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Escamot made by the Brethren of this Holy Hebra of Bikur Hulim [visiting the sick—Ed.] and Guemilut Haçadim [giving of loving-kindness—Ed.], in company with the Senhores of the Mahamad [board of…
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The Bikur Ḥolim (Visiting the Sick) and Gemilut Ḥasadim (Giving of Loving-Kindness) Society of London
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1665