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Sifre ‘evronot—manuals for calculating the Jewish calendar, including leap years and holidays—were a popular genre of Ashkenazic illustrated manuscripts in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries…
Contributor:
Pinchas (Phineas) ben Avraham Halevi
Places:
Halberstadt, Holy Roman Empire (Halbe Metze, Germany)
Date:
1716
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In recent years, a time when the branches of science planted in the vineyard of the Enlightenment stretch out to our brethren in our land [i.e., the Russian Empire], and many eat their fruit, and many…
Contributor:
Mordechai Tsvi Mane
Places:
St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1881
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Kabbalist Elijah Menaḥem ben Abba Mari Ḥalfan constructed this diagram, now stained and torn, with the assistance of his tutor Abraham Sarfati. It depicts the sefirotic system and includes Ḥalfan’s…
Contributor:
Elijah Menaḥem Ḥalfan
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1533