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Again, I caution you: when you go to some feast in celebration of the performance of a mitzvah, do not focus only on eating and drinking. Rather, you should first ask some sort of praiseworthy…
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Shabbetai Sheftel Horowitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1660
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In the year fifteen hundred and forty-nine, the seventh indiction, the first day of the month of February, during the time of the pontificate of the Holy Father in Christ Our Lord, Lord Paul III, pope…
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Ovadiah Sforno
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Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)
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1549
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We the undersigned went in to visit R. David ben R. Moses Verlengo, may God preserve him, and found him ill, lying on his bed, but his words and speech were lucid and correct and orderly in his mouth…
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David Verlengo
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Verona, Venice (Verona, Italy)
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1656
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In the name of God Amen I Rachel Luis being sick of body but of sound mind and Memory Do make this my last will and Testamit in manner and form following that is to say I wish and order that after my…
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Rachel Luis
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New York City, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)
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1737
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My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…
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Naphtali ha-Kohen Katz
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Russian Empire (Ukraine)
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ca. 1718
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Turn from evil and do good. Beloved Son. The great esteem in which I hold you and my intense desire for your welfare have prompted me to draw up this list of virtues as an antidote against the…
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Isaac de Matatia Aboab
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1685
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Whereas it is true and certain that the Lady Simcha—may she be blessed above women in the tent—daughter of the honorable and exalted R. Hefetz Conforte—may his soul repose in Paradise—summoned us, the…
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Simcha Conforte
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Skopje, Ottoman Empire (Skopje, North Macedonia)
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1730
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Behold, an agency was sent to me from the two groups of the yeshiva heads coming to judgment, in whose hand was a written deed, signed by fit and proper witnesses, that the widow, the aforesaid lady…
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Rebecca ha-Levi
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1730
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In the name of God, Amen.
I Moses Cohen DeLara of the parish of Kingston in the Island of Jamaica aforesaid Merchant being sick in Body but of Sound memory and…
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Moses Cohen DeLara
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Kingston, British America and the British West Indies (Kingston, Jamaica)
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1749