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Confirmation of the Old Regulations and Decisions
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    The mahamad [congregation board] shall have supreme authority over everything. And no one shall be able to contravene the decisions taken and promulgated by the said mahamad, nor shall they sign any…

Contributor:

Kahal Talmud Torah of the Sephardic Jews in Amsterdam

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1639

Subjects:

Government, Leadership, Communal organizations, Family, Excommunication

Categories:

Law, Legal Codes
Documentos para todo estado e ydade, e em particular para abituar bem os moços desde sua moçidade â vertude (Documents for Every State and Age, and in Particular to Accustom Young Men from Their Youth to Virtue)
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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…

Contributor:

Isaac de Matatia Aboab

Places:

Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Date:

1685

Subjects:

Family, Children, Life cycle, Charity, Oral Torah

Categories:

Law, Wills, Testaments & Bequests, Science & Philosophy, Ethics