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You already know that concerning all matters of supernal attainment, one needs to be alone in his house so that others will not disturb his thought, and he himself needs to…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
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The three problems that I first asked are explained in regard to all of that which I have said. The first: Why is it called the “Holy Land” and the “Holy Temple”? This is according to the fact that it…
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Jacob ben Abraham Tsaddik, Isaac Karo
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Beginning of the 16th Century
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The Book of Me‘am lo‘ez is the explication of the entire Hebrew Bible in Ladino, explaining the way of life which a person must lead as the sacred law commanded, and also to know about all that…
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Jacob Huli
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1730
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Its sign is ה״שז
It is year 2 of the Sabbatical cycle
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year 3 of the small lunar cycle 299
year 9 of the large solar cycle 203
year 1837 [sic] of the Destruction of the Temple, may it be built and…
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Ezra Dangur
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire
(Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1904
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Reuben spoke in the marketplace with two men, inviting them to come to his house for the purpose of giving them the monies accrued from a business partnership, and they entered his house…
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Yom Tov ben Israel Jacob Algazi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1800
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Mikri (“little one”) Wife of Yehuda Hamon (d. 1642)
Yesterday I was playing on the earth, in my husband’s embrace, like a tiny lamb, And an angel came and preyed upon me in his wrath…
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1642–1704
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This is a prayer book for women in Ladino for the whole year, with its order of blessings at the end. And the order for washing the hands and many other laws applicable to all of the most common…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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ca. 1565
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Considering the great harm and dangers that have befallen the religious communities of Israel on account of overdressing both by women and by young men, we, the undersigned honorable parnasim…
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The Portuguese Jewish Community of Tunis
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Tunis, Ottoman Empire
(Tunis, Tunisia)
Date:
1726
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Their custom on the night of Purim was for each individual to pray in his own private domain and home, and…
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Aryeh Leyb ben Daniel, Francesco Griselini, Ḥayim Abulafia
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1736
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With the Almighty’s assistance.
It having been the case that the esteemed and exalted R. Joseph Fico, may his Rock and Redeemer protect him, has been perpetually quarreling with his esteemed wife, Mrs…
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Unknown
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1607