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I received your letter, and since you believed that I sent to you concerning matters of our Messiah of Truth, I shall fulfill the wishes of your heart and your feelings of deficiency, and I shall tell…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
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Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
1670
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[Sabbatai’s] illumination grew steadily more intense up to the thirteenth day of the month of Adar [23 February]. On that day his brother came for a stay, along with four of Vani Effendi’s men.…
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Jacob Najara
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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A yihud [magical-theurgic “unification”] that my teacher, of blessed memory, taught me to remove an evil spirit: [For] sometimes the soul of an evil person is yet unable to get into Gehinnom because…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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16th Century
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To Sir Moses Montefiore, from Oro, the widow of Hayim Arieh, 1866
[Oh] one who gives light to the earth and to them that dwell thereon, who is…
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Oro Arieh
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1866
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These high officials were not accustomed to wearing European-style shirts. When they decided to dress in the European style, they asked a certain ham, Daniel Andjel, whose shop at the Women’s Market…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1881–1902
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And in the City of London we went to the Fort which is called the Tower, and there I saw lions and an eagle one hundred years old and a great snake from India and another snake and other wild beasts…
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Ḥayim Joseph David Azulai
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Hebron, Ottoman Empire (Hebron, West Bank)
Date:
Second Half of the 19th Century
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If there is one branch of study that is entirely neglected in our schools it is the history of our forefathers from the time of their dispersion across the globe until the present. . . . [True,] our…
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Mercado Joseph Covo
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1892
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1911
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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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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
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century