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Where everyone travels, in the middle of the road,
there is a wonderful flower.
It’s been lying there and rotting for several days now.
The wind blows it around,
and it cries out and weeps a great…
Contributor:
Elyokum Tsunzer
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
Date Unknown, 19th-early 20th century
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Question 30: From Gaza: may our master teach us whether the inhabitants of Gaza are obligated to separate terumot and tithes, as there are a few people who own land. In general, the question is…
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David Ibn Abi Zimra
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
Mid–16th Century
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My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…
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Johann Conrad Weiss, Naphtali ha-Kohen Katz
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ca. 1718
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First, we will explain the reason for the custom of all Israel to read from Tractate Avot on these Sabbaths. We would like to analyze the meaning of the name of the tractate, why it is called Avot…
Contributor:
Azariah Piccio
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1647