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In the morning, David wrote a letter to Joab, which he sent with Uriah. He wrote in the letter as follows: “Place Uriah in the front line where the fighting is fiercest; then fall back so that he…
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Your son, Yehukal, sends his blessings for the welfare of Gedalyahu son of Elyair and for the welfare of your house. I bless you to YHWH. And now, behold my lord has done [ . . . ] May YHWH recompense…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Late 7th–Early 6h Century BCE
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May YHWH cause my lord to hear, this very day, tidings of good. And now, according to everything my lord has sent, thus has your servant done. I wrote on the sheet according to everything you sent to…
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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586 BCE
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Papyrus, rolled and sealed, Samaria, 4th century BCE. This legal document had multiple seals affixed to it, apparently from different individuals (see the translation of this document, Slave Sale)…
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Samaria, Land of Israel (Samaria, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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The backs of many bullas, like those shown here from the City of David in Jerusalem, have impressions of the strings that once tied the rolled document and marks from the papyrus fibers of the…
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC, Second Half of 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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Question: The following incident occurred: The gentlemen, R. Abraham Vidal, may he rest in peace, was married to the modest lady, Estrella, sister of the fine young man, R. David Pinto, may God…
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Paul Christian Kirchner, Jacob Castro
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
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End of the 16th Century
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I am astonished to see that for reading just the names of the holy books, one receives his reward, as if he had read and studied them all. If so, then one will not make much of an effort to study…
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Shabbetai Meshorer Bass
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1680
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Here is a song that I created,
well composed and uncomplicated;
you can call it a song or call it a dirge.
I’d like to tell you some of my troubles:
some men have problems by…
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Ḥayim Yom-Tob Magula
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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ca. 1739
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This manuscript copy of Sefer ha-kavanot (The Book of [Kabbalistic] Intentions [in Prayer and Performance of Precepts]) by Ḥayim Vital was written in Meknes, Morocco. The kabbalists in Safed stressed…
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David ben Aaron Ibn Ḥasin
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Meknes, Kingdom of Morocco (Meknes, Morocco)
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1737
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This magnificent maḥzor (holiday prayer book) was copied—and most likely decorated—by the scribe Isaac bar Mordechai ha-Kohen (Isaac Lankosh of Kraków). (In several places, the name “Isaac” has…
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Isaac Lankosh of Kraków
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1560