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Rembrandt van Rijn
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1655
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This gravestone in the oldest Jewish cemetery in the Netherlands (est. 1614), that of the Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam, is inscribed in memory of Mordechai Franco Mendes (d…
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Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands)
Date:
1687 and 1696
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Listen carefully to my words. When I was in the land of Safed, one night, when the sun had set, I was tired and weary, lying on my bed. I was asleep, but my heart was awake; my beloved was knocking…
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Asher Lemlein
Places:
Istria, Holy Roman Empire
(Istria, Croatia)
Date:
1500–1502
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Now, lo, I saw a dream and since then I am very feverish. May Iahmoliah attend to my welfare.
Now, if you wish, do not sell them. Let the children eat them. Lo, there do not remain any cucumbers.
Tran…
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Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
Date:
Early 5th Century BCE
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I received your letter, and since you believed that I sent to you concerning matters of our Messiah of Truth, I shall fulfill the wishes of your heart and your feelings of deficiency, and I shall tell…
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Abraham Michael Cardoso
Places:
Tripoli, Ottoman Empire
(Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
1670
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For do not interpretations belong to God? There are many kinds of dreams in the world: dreams that are mostly true and close to prophecy, but the sages said that there are no dreams without…
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Raphael Mordechai Malki
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Last Quarter of the 17th Century
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A fourth dream, occurring shortly after the last one mentioned, brings me back to Rome. I see a street-corner before me and am astonished to see so many German placards posted there. On the day before…
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Sigmund Freud
Places:
Vienna, Austro-HungarianEmpire
(Vienna, Austria)
Vienna/Leipzig, Austrian Empire
(Vienna/Leipzig, Germany)
Date:
1899
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You will assuredly regard it as wondrous, and it will gladden your heart that I too regarded as wondrous the vision vouchsafed to me by the Almighty in relation to the aliyot “ascents”—wondrous things…
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Ba‘al Shem Tov
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Międzyboż, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Medzhybizh, Ukraine)
Date:
1752
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Arthur Tress
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1974
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Illustrious sir, having frequently thought about and recalled many treatises which in the presence of Your Worship were practiced during the time when I enjoyed your divine…
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Moses Almosnino
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1564