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Even though the fifteenth of the month of Shevat is during the period of shovevim, one does not fast, for it is the New Year’s Day for fruit trees. And with the tikkun [mystical repair] performed on…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1731/32
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[ . . . ] Based on the above reasoning, you can see how wrong those people are who fast on the day of the birth of the new moon, as the whole reason for…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1731/32
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Regarding those who fight one another inside the synagogue over the seats which each one has designated for himself, as when one is late in arriving and finds that another person is sitting in his…
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Jacob Huli
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1732
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Their custom on the night of Purim was for each individual to pray in his own private domain and home, and…
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Ḥayim Abulafia
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1736