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In answer to those who ask me whether or not it is permitted to paint the walls of the synagogue with pictures of grass, trees, and calyxes, we researched the question and our answer is as follows:
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Samuel Archevolti
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
Late 16th or Early 17th Century
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A halakhic decision written by Netanel Trabotto about singers [accompanying prayer in the synagogue] who repeated the word crown as well as the Name of God, and they…
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Netanel Trabotto, Abraham Graziano
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1645
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Furthermore, I say that another reason for this [commentary] is that since all of these ethical principles were given to Moses at Sinai and it is necessary to fulfill them, when one hears about them…
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Samuel Uceda
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1579
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All nations have been subject, in their authors, as in all other things, to significant important changes. Inclinations, needs, and the relations of their subjects change, as do the passions of the…
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Benedetto Frizzi
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Trieste, Habsburg Empire (Trieste, Italy)
Date:
1787–1790
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Stronger than the lions’ den [see Song of Songs 4:8; 2 Samuel 1:23], raise a banner over Mount Zion [see Isaiah 13:2], they are the mighty ones [see…
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Isaac de Lattes
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1556
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Says the youth, Gedaliah, the Lord has granted me the merit to begin the work of heaven, today Wednesday, the 23rd of Tammuz, 5347 (July 29, 1587). I have fixed it for a fast and remembrance for ever…
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Gedaliah Cordovero
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1587
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- Jews hold the Sabbath, above all other feasts, with the greatest veneration on account of it being named so often in the Scripture and being ordered…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1637
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I have examined the matter carefully, to see whether I should uphold that which they have already done, in nullifying the custom [of reciting the priestly blessing after dark, during the Ne…
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Jacob Ulma, Isaac Lampronti
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1715
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O great mountain (Zechariah 4:7), the exalted and raised (Isaiah 52:13), precious cornerstone (Isaiah 28:16), my teacher, my rabbi, may the Merciful One guard and bless him, may God protect him and…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Padua, Republic of Venice (Padua, Italy)
Date:
1732
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On the Sabbath a few young girls were [playing] going up and down a ladder in the house of Bella Stella. One of them, Marchigiana, daughter of Aron di Joab, [tripped . . . and] fell; and her virginity…
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Unknown
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1539