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I found it written somewhere that the eleven offerings brought on Rosh ḥodesh [the New Moon] correspond to the eleven extra days of the solar year over and above those of the…
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Moses Isserles
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
Date:
1570
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In the back of a manuscript collection of astronomical texts, which includes one of Abraham ibn Ezra’s works on the use of the astrolabe (a tool for astronomical calculations), is a set of crude but…
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1629
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Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor, Artist Unknown
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1576
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This elaborate Italian kabbalistic manuscript depicts the inner processes of the divine (the sefirot) in the shape of a tree (in Hebrew, ilan), or tree of life. Visualization plays an important part…
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Artist Unknown
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Early 16th Century
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1550
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Nicolaus Copernicus, from [Polish] Prussia, was a great man, who was more proficient in the field of astronomy than all the wise men of his age. Indeed, all the wise men of our time unanimously attest…
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David Ganz, David Ganz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century
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David Ganz
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Jeßnitz, Holy Roman Empire
(Germany)
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18th Century
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Now the daughter of the King of the Kittim, on hearing this, became highly enraged, and she said, “Is there any room to defend the cause of these people who were lacking in wisdom and set down a…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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In correctly understanding the truest theory, there were many opinions; but I will bring two…
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Meir Magino, Tuviah ha-Kohen
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1707
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In order to know whether our comet was one of the those that the astrologers described, it is necessary to…
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Asher bar Samuel ha-Kohen, Leyb ben Samuel Oppenheim, Jacob Rosales
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Lisbon, Portuguese Empire
(Lisbon, Portugal)
Date:
1619