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This is a short essay on the debate concerning practical halakhic issues that took place between the sages of Safed and those of Jerusalem wherein the sages of Safed saw fit to implement the ruling…
Contributor:
Levi Ibn Ḥabib
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1538
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When the heads of the holy nation were assembled together—the holy communities here in the village of Magnesia—and they saw that the power of the testimony was dissipated and there was none remaining…
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The Jewish Community of Magnesia (Manisa)
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Magnesia, Ottoman Empire (Manisa, Turkey)
Date:
1555
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In the year 5332 [1572], we went out in the fields and we passed the grave of a gentile that was more than a thousand years old. His Animus was seen on his tombstone and he tried to harm me and kill…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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We the undersigned have taken it upon ourselves to be in one society, to serve the Lord, may He be blessed, and to busy ourselves with His Torah day and night, in accordance with that which our…
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Students of Isaac Luria
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1575
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I went to the grave of the Tanna Ila, a man from the village of Yavneh who is mentioned in the tractates Berakhot and Avot, and afterwards we went to the grave of the pious Tanna R. Judah bar Ila‘i…
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Isaiah Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1621
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Behold, from the time of our settlement in the city that the Lord has chosen, which He had desired for His habitation (Psalms 132:13), we heard your voice and obeyed, for you stand in the breach…
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Students of the Jerusalem Yeshiva
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1521
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When our teacher Rabbi Solomon, who was a rabbi here in Aleppo, passed away without any male children, the rabbis [of the city] consulted among themselves, and with the elders of the people and the…
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Raphael Laniado
Places:
Aleppo, Ottoman Empire (Aleppo, Syria)
Date:
1787
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Let us recount a story of the old days, of what happened to a great man who lived then.
He was our Rav Danon,
may his name endure forever.
We will not forget him ever,
We will extol him before God,
f…
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Unknown
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia)
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ca. 1820