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When I was in Castile in the city of Zamora, tranquil and secure in my abode, I set my mind to inquire and explore matters of Torah and began to compose a book yielding lovely…
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Abraham Saba
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Ksar el-Kebir, Kingdom of Morocco (Ksar El Kebir, Morocco)
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ca. 1500
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R. Isaac ben Abraham ben Judah ‘Akrish, may he rest in peace, from exile in Spain and Naples, said that he would not receive the proud waters [of baptism; see Psalms 124:5], and was driven out…
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Isaac Akrish
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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ca. 1575–1578
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I was born in July, 1626, in the French city of Tartas to my father Christopher de Lis and my mother Elisabeth de Pas. She nursed me with her own milk, taught, educated, and held me on her own lap…
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Jan Veenhuyzen, Isaac de Castro Tartas
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Lisbon, Portuguese Empire (Lisbon, Portugal)
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1645
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[1] After experience had taught me that all the things which regularly occur in ordinary life are empty and futile, and I saw that all the things which were the cause or object of my fear had nothing…
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Abraham Rademaker, Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1662
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Without warning, on the 20th of April, 1749, at the end of the Passover Festival, Sunday, at about 17 hours [noon], I was kidnapped and taken away by force thanks to a false denunciation made against…
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Anna del Monte
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
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1749
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second Half of the 16th Century
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I am the man they call, at times, mem-bet-aleph, which are the [Hebrew] initials of Michael ben Abraham. At other times I am called aleph-mem-koph: Abraham Michael Cardozo. I am of the Marranos of…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
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Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
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ca. 1668
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When [Isaac Luria] was sick, he blessed each companion with a suitable blessing for him, in accordance with the spark of his soul. R. ḥayim Vital was not there with them at the time of the blessing…
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Unknown
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1534–1572
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When the Lord enlarged the border of the Jewish people, and they increased and grew exceedingly mighty, and the land was filled with knowledge of the Lord [see Exodus 1:7; Isaiah 11:9] by the…
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David ben Samuel ha-Levi
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Ostróg, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Ostroh, Ukraine)
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1646
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I, David, son of King Solomon of blessed memory, from the Khibur Desert, arrived at the gate of the State of Rome on the fifteenth day of the month of First Adar in the year 5584 [1524]. A…
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David ha-Reuveni
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
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1520s