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Now, lo, I saw a dream and since then I am very feverish. May Iahmoliah attend to my welfare.
Now, if you wish, do not sell them. Let the children eat them. Lo, there do not remain any cucumbers.
Tran…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Early 5th Century BCE
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May the Lord who dwells in Zion protect you from any grief and sorrow. To my beloved mother, the crown of my head, the pious Mrs. Rachel, may she live long. [ . . . ] You should know, my dear mom…
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Moses Sussman Zarit
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
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ca. 1560
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A few days after receiving your precious letter of 5 November 1854, I began collating [the pages of my book], which took me until New Year’s eve to finish. But what a chasm in between! I began the…
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Daniel Khvolson
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
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ca. 1855
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If we should lack nothing else than veils, it would be all right.
May peace and healthy days be your lot always; to you, my much beloved daughter, may you live long, you who are pious and virtuous…
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Reisel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1619
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How good and agreeable is it, when brothers live in one house, and how much more father and son
Peace to my beloved, dear and darling son, whose soul is bound to my soul, the intimate friend, the…
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Eliezer Morawczyk
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Tymbarg, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tymbark, Poland)
Date:
1588