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According to the Torah, a man can acquire a woman in one of three ways:
Through a document, through silver, or through intercourse. God is the one that gives a prudent wife.
In truth, one must begin…
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Judah Alkaletz
Places:
Algiers, Ottoman Empire (Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang:
When locks go untrimmedin Israel,
When people dedicate themselves—
Bless the Lord!
Hear, O kings! Give ear, O potentates!
I will sing, will…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Although a beautiful shock of golden hair swings across her forehead
And love finds nourishment in her eyes
The chaste Susannah never strays from the right path
And harbors not one thought without…
Contributor:
Devorà Ascarelli
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
16th Century
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Meanwhile the queen, wracked by internal anguish,invites the king and Haman to her banquetand in joyous hope awaits the sacred streamof divine mercy form the holy fount-head;her humble soul bowed low…
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João Pinto Delgado
Places:
Rouen, France
Date:
17th Century
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Beautiful mistress mine,
upon whose snow at dawn
the rose is forming
on fields of mother of pearl.
Pure and lovely lily,
who amid coral protects itself
from the pure crystals
that the…
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Antonio Enríquez Gómez
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17th Century
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In those days, a terrible thing happened,
for two officials of the king committed an offence
against their master, and with a flask,
they plotted to poison the king without delay.
Mordecai, who had…
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Mordechai Dato
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16th Century