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May salvation be near, and we be cleansed of great sin. Amen.
I, the undersigned, have witnessed the bad custom practiced among young men on the days of Purim, that in the synagogue during the…
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Moses Bili ben Judah, The Jewish Community of Crete
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Crete, Republic of Venice (Crete, Greece)
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1545
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised.
Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it.
I the young one, Meir, son of our…
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Meir de Boton
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1565
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985. The ancient custom of kaparot [having a chicken slaughtered after symbolically transferring one’s sins to it] is well known; I will only write that my custom is also to say, based on the Maharal…
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Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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17th Century
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And this, too, must be said, that the main reason for establishing the days of Hanukkah is because they [the Jews] were victorious over the Greeks. However, it did not appear that the victory was…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1600
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Artist Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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21. On the second day of Rosh Hashanah, we pray as on the first day, except that the liturgical poems are different. [ . . . ]
22. And the Musaf service is as on the first day, except that we do not…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Johann Georg Puschner, Sebastian Jugendres, Joseph Kosman
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1718
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1746
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1502
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The portion of Va-yikra’, on the holy Sabbath, 7th Adar II, 5331 [1571]. I delivered this sermon before a large audience, in honor of the King, king of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
[When any…
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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1568–1574
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Bernard Picart
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1725