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This poem says that wellbeing [shalom] is ours, since we have God as our king, and we have the Torah, whose paths are wellbeing, even though we have acted wrongly and have been trapped by bad hatred…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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On the eve of the fourteenth [of Nisan], after reciting the evening prayer, you must light a wax candle and recite the blessing on removing your leavened foods. Then you must search in your room and…
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Solomon Adahan
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Tétouan, Safavid Iran (Tétouan, Morocco)
Date:
1735
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat.
And then…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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ca. 1565
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Prepare the feast
of perfect faith,
the delight of the Holy King.
Prepare the feast of the King.
This is the feast
of the Field of Holy Apples;
the Lesser Presence and Ancient Eminence
asse…
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Isaac Luria
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ca. 1565
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And we may remove the [Seder] table, so that the young child should express wonder at why we are removing the table; for surely it would be appropriate to eat now that we are already leaning…
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Judah Loew
Places:
Prague, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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At the beginning of Purim, after evening prayer near the time when it gets dark, the charity warden brings with him an assortment of candles that are painted and nice looking, and he…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
17th Century
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As on this month’s last day,
the moon is waning,
make my sins wane, O Lord,
my merits flourish.
I know my heart is hard—
a wicked web whose threads are sin—
and I deserve the fire
for weaving wrong…
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Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
17th Century
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Their custom on the night of Purim was for each individual to pray in his own private domain and home, and…
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Ḥayim Abulafia
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Türkiye)
Date:
1736
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This prayer book for the Rosh Hashanah festival from Crete is elaborately decorated inside with drawings of animals and people and has a colorful title page. Greek (Romaniote/Byzantine) Jews had lived…
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Moses Bili ben Judah
Places:
Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1614
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To the city of London, to the complete sage R. Solomon Ayalon, in the year 1697.
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Jacob Sasportas
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1697