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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1530s
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For do not interpretations belong to God? There are many kinds of dreams in the world: dreams that are mostly true and close to prophecy, but the sages said that there are no dreams without…
Contributor:
Raphael Mordechai Malki
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Last Quarter of the 17th 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…
Contributor:
Abraham Michael Cardoso
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
ca. 1668
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For opening the heart; tested and tried. Take a new glass and write on it:
I adjure you, Patḥiel, to open my heart to all the Torah to learn all that I desire. That my heart should be as an…
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Unknown
Places:
London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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17th or 18th Century