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Behold, an agency was sent to me from the two groups of the yeshiva heads coming to judgment, in whose hand was a written deed, signed by fit and proper witnesses, that the widow, the aforesaid lady…
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Rebecca ha-Levi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1730
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A yihud [magical-theurgic “unification”] that my teacher, of blessed memory, taught me to remove an evil spirit: [For] sometimes the soul of an evil person is yet unable to get into Gehinnom because…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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Sunday, 15th of the aforementioned month [Elul; 10.9.1623]. The Sipahis [feudal cavalrymen] and the Janissaries [professional infantry corps] and all the king’s slaves and ministers came to speak with…
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Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1622–1624
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How goodly are the tents of Jacob, the dwelling-places of Israel (Numbers 24:5), the synagogues and study houses in Jerusalem, that from morning to evening and from midnight to morning are never…
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Unknown
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1628
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I received your letter, and since you believed that I sent to you concerning matters of our Messiah of Truth, I shall fulfill the wishes of your heart and your feelings of deficiency, and I shall tell…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire
(Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
1670
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[Sabbatai’s] illumination grew steadily more intense up to the thirteenth day of the month of Adar [23 February]. On that day his brother came for a stay, along with four of Vani Effendi’s men.…
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Jacob Najara
Places:
Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
Date:
1671
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Constantinople [Istanbul], April 8, 1911
Dear Mrs. N.,
I hear unanimously and consistently that the market [for prostitution—Eds.] in Constantinople is ninety percent Jewish women, that almost all…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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1911
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If there is one branch of study that is entirely neglected in our schools it is the history of our forefathers from the time of their dispersion across the globe until the present. . . . [True,] our…
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Mercado Joseph Covo
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Salonica, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1892
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Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…
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Alexander Benghiat
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1920
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In order to survive, a newspaper needs numerous subscribers, the help of the community, paid publications, the aid of the friends of education, the generosity of the nation, and the support of the…
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Sa’adi Besalel a-Levi
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1877