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And so let it be known to your Excellency what happened to the letter that your Excellency sent me with the etrogs [citrons]. The letter was not handed to me until the [week of the] Sabbath of Vayetze…
Contributor:
Asenath Barazani
Places:
Mosul, Ottoman Empire
(Mosul, Iraq)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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The soul of man, Signor Baldassare, is incorruptible, immortal, and divine, created and infused by God into our body when the fetus in the maternal womb was made fit to receive it. This truth is as…
Contributor:
Sarra Copia Sullam
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1621
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Again, I caution you: when you go to some feast in celebration of the performance of a mitzvah, do not focus only on eating and drinking. Rather, you should first ask some sort of praiseworthy…
Contributor:
Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
ca. 1660