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Mikri (“little one”) Wife of Yehuda Hamon (d. 1642)
Yesterday I was playing on the earth, in my husband’s embrace, like a tiny lamb, And an angel came and preyed upon me in his wrath…
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1642–1704
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To the city of Yemen, Sheikh Shalom, on the 4th of Shevat [9th January 1742] from the Constantinople officials, may the Lord protect them.
The son of a valiant man, who had done mighty deeds, of…
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Constantinople Officials
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1742
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[ . . . ] Based on the above reasoning, you can see how wrong those people are who fast on the day of the birth of the new moon, as the whole reason for…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire
(İzmir, Turkey)
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1731/32
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In the name of the Lord:
My brothers and my friends, the inhabitants of Albanian Belgrade [Berat, Albania]: may all who are worthy merit seeing the salvation of the Lord. Hurry and send me the maḥzor…
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Shabbetai Tzvi
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1666
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If I was indeed engaged in my youth with singing and the musical art, surely it is the most magnificent of the arts, and I have elucidated its beneficial effects in the Abir Ya‘akov in this commentary…
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David Messer Leon
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Istanbul, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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Early 16th Century
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The Master of the Universe gave us the holy and blessed law so that we would enjoy l’olam haba [the world to come], so that we would know and see the light of eternal life. Study and a good…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen, Abraham Asá
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1739
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In the eponymate of Dayan-Ashur, on the 14th of Aiaru (Iyyar), I set out from Nineveh . . .
I set out from the Euphrates and approached Aleppo. They (i.e., the inhabitants of Aleppo) were afraid of…
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853–824 BCE
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It was a winter day. The streets of Vienna were dirty and shrouded with the mud of the snows that were falling, only to be melted immediately under the feet of the passersby. A dense and heavy smoke…
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Ben-Yitsḥak Saserdote
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Türkiye, Turkey)
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1910
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Notice, dear readers, that one of the foundations of Judaism is the belief (הנומא) in שפנה תראשה, the abidingness of the soul, which means the immortality of the soul, for a person’s soul does not die…
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Ḥayim Shaki
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1899
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Nearly fifteen years ago, following frequent persecutions against our coreligionists in Russia and Romania, a few European Jews conceived of the project of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine and…
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David Fresco
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1909