Showing Results 1 - 3 of 3
Public Access
Text
Furthermore, with regard to a synagogue, one should be careful when leaving the synagogue not to leave with one’s back to the altar, where the Torah scroll is placed. Rather, one should face the holy…
Contributor:
Elijah de Vidas
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1579
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The concept of Love is further explained in the Zohar [II, Ki Tissa, 190b], where it is stated as follows: The Torah contains within it love and brotherhood and truth. Abraham loved…
Contributor:
Elijah de Vidas
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1579
Categories:
Public Access
Text
In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot
Contributor:
Israel Najara
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Early 17th Century