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To the eminent sage, his honor our rabbi, R. Samson Bacchi of Casale, may the Compassionate One keep and preserve him
Contributor:
Moses Zacuto
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1672
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Printed birth amulet. The decorative borders are composed of printers’ devices and decorations that were used by printers in Fürth (Bavaria), so it is assumed that this amulet was printed in that city…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Fürth, Holy Roman Empire (Fürth, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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This German amulet is printed with unique designs. The names of the three angels, Sanoi, Sansanoi, and Smangalaf, indicate the use of this amulet as birth protection for mother and child, as…
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Artist Unknown
Places:
Holy Roman Empire (Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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The Israelites again did what was offensive to the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
There was a certain man from Zorah, of the stock…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Biblical Period
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I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…
Contributor:
Elijah Falkon
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1571