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Torah Curtain
Rachel Olivetti of Pesaro
1620
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Rachel Olivetti of Pesaro, Italy, was the wife of Judah Montefiore. She embroidered a Torah ark curtain and donated it to a synagogue in Pesaro in 1620.
At the time when the florid season,
joyful springtime of life,
the tender infancy of its ardent age,
made its first step in the Orient
placing flower before Aprils
to my first juvenile…
Thus saith the humble Jacob ben Chajim ben Isaac Ibn Adonijah: “He entereth in peace, where the righteous rest upon their couches, who walked in uprightness.”
Praised be the Creator, who exists and…