Showing Results 1 - 5 of 5
Restricted
Text
The process that ultimately enabled women to serve as pleaders in the rabbinical courts began thanks to the initiative of one woman, Ruth Margarit Neiger of Raananah…
Contributor:
Yoram Kirsch
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
2002
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
These are the words of the insignificant man, Joseph Karo, son of the great R. Ephraim, son of the great R. Joseph Karo, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come.
I shall…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1563
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Image
See, I have imparted to you laws and rules, as the Lord my God has commanded me, for you to abide by in the land that you are about to enter and occupy. Observe them faithfully, for that…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Question: Reuven has a single daughter, soft and delicate, whom he married to Ḥanokh ben Judah with a dowry of a thousand sultanish. The bride is twelve years old, and in her father’s home she was…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
When our teacher Rabbi Solomon, who was a rabbi here in Aleppo, passed away without any male children, the rabbis [of the city] consulted among themselves, and with the elders of the people and the…
Contributor:
Raphael Laniado
Places:
Aleppo, Ottoman Empire (Aleppo, Syria)
Date:
1787