Showing Results 71 - 80 of 84
Public Access
Text
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
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
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…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth (Song of Songs 1:2).
These are the first spoken words of the student who yearns for the Torah, which is like the daughter of the king of kings with its…
Contributor:
Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
I maintain that this megilah [scroll] is nothing other than a disputation of the people of the diaspora, those exiled in the bitter and impetuous [see Habakkuk 1:6] captivity of this host [see Obadiah…
Contributor:
Moses Alsheikh
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1591
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Concerning the explanation of the paths of hitbodedut [contemplation] and conjunction and the preparations that are proper for one who practices hitbodedut in order to arrive at his…
Contributor:
Judah Albotini
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1519
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Image
And now we will explain the root of Moses our Rabbi, may peace be upon him. Know that Israel was distilled in Egypt, as it was an iron furnace (Deuteronomy 4:20). And it is known that Moses…
Contributor:
Isaac Luria
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century
Categories:
Public Access
Text
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…
Contributor:
Students of Isaac Luria
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1575
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
From the rabbis and geonim of the holy city of Safed, may it be speedily rebuilt in our days, sent to Modena, may God protect it, in 5370 [1610]
He shall be called a holy man [see Isaiah 4:3]; the…
Contributor:
The Rabbis of Safed
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1610
Categories:
Public Access
Text
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…
Contributor:
Isaiah Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1621
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
At present there are approximately three hundred homeowners, and almost twelve hundred people, in Jerusalem, may it be rebuilt and reestablished. This about the situation you will find at any point in…
Contributor:
Raphael Mordechai Malki
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Late 17th Century