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On the Sabbath a few young girls were [playing] going up and down a ladder in the house of Bella Stella. One of them, Marchigiana, daughter of Aron di Joab, [tripped . . . and] fell; and her virginity…
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1539
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Question: Reuven has a single daughter, soft and delicate, whom he married to Ḥanokh ben Judah with a dowry of a thousand sultanish. The bride is twelve years old, and in her father’s home she was…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1542
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There was a certain man in our country who had become totally impoverished, and who had betrothed his elder daughter to her appropriate mate. During the period of her betrothal—the date fixed for…
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Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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Mid–16th Century
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Bordeaux, Kingdom of France (Bordeaux, France)
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1747
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With the Almighty’s assistance.
It having been the case that the esteemed and exalted R. Joseph Fico, may his Rock and Redeemer protect him, has been perpetually quarreling with his esteemed wife, Mrs…
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1607
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Text endorsing regulations concerning the playing of instrumental music and other entertainments, and the night-time bridal procession, drafted by me with the powerful endorsement of the sages—may…
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Peter Fehr, The Jewish Community of Salonika
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1654
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Question 4: Reuben, a young Torah scholar from the city of Tiberias, contracted a marital arrangement with Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Jacob, from the city of Sepphoris. This is the text of the…
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Joseph Katzabi
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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Second Half of the 17th Century
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Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel, who created His world for the purpose of mankind, and, from all the different sorts of men, chose for Himself a nation as a special treasure—namely…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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1542
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This rare example of a Roman ketubah (marriage contract) from the seventeenth century was written on the occasion of the marriage of Menahem ben Samuel Zadik to Zevia, daughter of the prominent banker…
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
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1627
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This ketubah (marriage contract), was signed in Bayonne, France, whose Jewish community originated with New Christians from Spain and Portugal in the sixteenth century. It marks the wedding of Isaac…
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France (Bayonne, France)
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1705