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In the year five thousand three hundred twenty-four [1564] of the Creation of the World, when we are returned to the houses of our fathers from the four corners of the world. After the expulsion in…
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Ḥevra Kadisha of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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16th Century
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Its sign is זש״הIt is year 2 of the Sabbatical cycleyear 3 of the small lunar cycle 299year 9 of the large solar cycle 203year 1837 [sic] of the Destruction of the Temple, may it be built and…
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Ezra Dangur
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Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
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1904
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When bloodletting is done at the right time, and when there is need for it, it promotes the health of the person, as I shall write about, God willing. When bloodletting is…
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Issachar Baer Teller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1655
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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
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Abraham Portaleone
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
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1611
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This is the book of the generations/children of man, those that were born by my hands among the Hebrew women. I came to them, I the midwife, for they are vital [Exodus 1:15–19] and give birth to a son…
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Roza
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Groningen, Dutch Republic (Groningen, Netherlands)
Netherlands
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1794–1832
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Since the methods of conducting surgical procedures have, for many years, been perfected to the highest degree in England and we do not have any treatise on the subject written in our…
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Jacob de Castro Sarmento
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London, Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
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1744
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On the preservation of one’s health when going to sleep and upon awakening. Our master, of blessed memory, wrote the following in laws 4 and 5 [Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Sefer ha-mada, hilkhot de‘ot…
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Jacob Tsahalon
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Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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1683
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Nicolaus Copernicus, from [Polish] Prussia, was a great man, who was more proficient in the field of astronomy than all the wise men of his age. Indeed, all the wise men of our time unanimously attest…
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David Ganz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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Beginning of the 17th Century
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In correctly understanding the truest theory, there were many opinions; but I will bring two…
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Tuviah ha-Kohen
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
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1707
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1786