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Lo! I, the insignificant Joshua Falk, son of my Master, my father, the honorable R. Alexander ha-Kohen of blessed memory, was once young and am now aged (Psalms 37:25), and all my life I grew up among…
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Joshua Falk
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Lvov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
1606
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My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…
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Naphtali ha-Kohen Katz
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Russian Empire (Ukraine)
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ca. 1718
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Look from the top of Amana (Song of Songs 4:8) and [see the type of] negotiation carried out faithfully [emunah]:
1. Be diligent in your transactions, to ensure that they are…
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Abraham ha-Levi Horowitz
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Lvov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century
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When the Lord enlarged the border of the Jewish people, and they increased and grew exceedingly mighty, and the land was filled with knowledge of the Lord [see Exodus 1:7; Isaiah 11:9] by the…
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David ben Samuel ha-Levi
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Ostróg, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Ostroh, Ukraine)
Date:
1646
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Lo, here is seed [zera‘] for you (Genesis 47:23), blessed one of the Lord [berakh], his honor the eminent rabbi and great preacher and reprover, in honor of heaven, our teacher and rabbi, Berakh son…
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Abraham Isaac Ḥazak
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Zablotov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Zabolotiv, Ukraine)
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1725/6
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In the main portion of this work I spoke of the use of an electric light. Here I shall discuss the law of whether one is permitted to speak on Shabbat by means of a machine called a “telephone.”…
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Yitsḥak Shmelkes
Date:
1888