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Now since the episode of the earthquake has already been mentioned, in order that all those who come after us should be aware of it, I shall place on record what occurred in relation to the earthquake…
Dear readers! I am giving you a rare and precious treasure, which has hitherto been lying in a library for three hundred years. Jews have always been thinking and talking about this treasure…
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…
[Hebrew:] We the undersigned, when the honorable old lady, Sra. Blanca, widow of R. Daniel Yeshurun (may his…
Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…
The city of Urfa, located between Palestine and Karaman, was the site of a very well-organized and previously planned massacre.
On the past August 18…
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The word “feminism” is interpreted in different ways. Some would grant [women] exaggerated rights. Others limit their demands to their simplest form without arriving at a proper…
Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
These are the generations of Isaac ben ḥayim ben Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac (Genesis 25:19) ben Joseph among the kohanim who trace their family back to Pinehas, son of Eliezer, son of Aaron the…
Let us return to our first matter, because these two territories, which we discussed, Masterdam [Amsterdam] and Igeltiera [England], in all of them they follow the Sephardic rite from the tribe of…