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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
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Judah Alkaletz
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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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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Unknown
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Ottoman Empire (Egypt)
Date:
1607
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The incident was as follows: A woman came before me from a backwater Jewish town weeping bitterly over the sins of her youth, as she had been unfaithful to her first husband before she married her…
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Unknown
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Holy Roman Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1689
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There was an incident involving a woman who came before the court to get a divorce. Her name was Melok, and she had no other known name at all. It occurred to me in this regard that the name…
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Abraham ben Mordechai ha-Levi
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Ottoman Empire (Egypt)
Date:
1694
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A month later, when a young man, about eighteen years old, Mulla Ovadia’s nephew, came to his father’s property and saw all that his uncle had done in it, he was told that his uncle had a wife in…
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Yehuda Burla
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1913