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The study program of this night has already been published and made known to the multitudes through the pamphlets that have been disseminated. And this custom has been disseminated throughout all of…
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Jan Luyken, Isaiah Horowitz
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1623
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Even though the fifteenth of the month of Shevat is during the period of shovevim, one does not fast, for it is the New Year’s Day for fruit trees. And with the tikkun [mystical repair] performed on…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1731/32
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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Early 20th Century
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Artist Unknown
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Vidin, Ottoman Empire
(Vidin, Bulgaria)
Date:
1658
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18th Century
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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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Question: Since it is true from time immemorial and ancient years that we observe the customs of our ancestors, as is the practice of the Musta‘arabim [Arabic-speaking Jews] everywhere among the Jews…
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Yom Tov Tzahalon
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
17th Century
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised.
Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it.
I the young one, Meir, son of our…
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Meir de Boton
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1565
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The portion of Va-yikra’, on the holy Sabbath, 7th Adar II, 5331 [1571]. I delivered this sermon before a large audience, in honor of the King, king of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
[When any…
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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1568–1574
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Kabbalists prayed using the basic Jewish prayers, but added certain elements according to their own tradition. The prayers are often presented with kavanot (special devotional forms, meanings, and…
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Unknown
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1734