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Joseph Karo, Moses Isserles
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
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1721/23
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Question: Reuven has a single daughter, soft and delicate, whom he married to Ḥanokh ben Judah with a dowry of a thousand sultanish. The bride is twelve years old, and in her father’s home she was…
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Joseph Karo
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1542
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Question 4: Reuben, a young Torah scholar from the city of Tiberias, contracted a marital arrangement with Rachel, the daughter of his uncle Jacob, from the city of Sepphoris. This is the text of the…
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Joseph Katzabi
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
Second Half of the 17th Century
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These ordinances have been decreed by us on Thursday, the twenty-first of Tammuz, corresponding to the twenty-first of June, of the year 5314 (1554) here at Ferrara.
- Printers shall not be permitted to…
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The Synod of the Italian Jewish Communities
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara (Ferrara, Italy)
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1554
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Menasce was asked about the taref (non-kosher) meat. And he said that Sabato di Perugia had told Salomone di Capena that the meat the latter had was taref. In fact…
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Unknown
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Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1539
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This is a short essay on the debate concerning practical halakhic issues that took place between the sages of Safed and those of Jerusalem wherein the sages of Safed saw fit to implement the ruling…
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Levi Ibn Ḥabib
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1538
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You shall not tolerate a sorceress.
Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.
Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone shall be proscribed.
You shall not wrong…
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Samaria, Land of Israel (Samaria, Israel)
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Persian Period, 4th Century BCE
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If a man has two wives, one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him sons, but the first-born is the son of the unloved one—when he wills his property to his…
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May my lord, the governor/commander, listen to the word of his servant! As for your servant, your servant was harvesting in Hatsar-asam. And your servant harvested and finished/measured and stored it…
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Meṣad Hashavyahu, Land of Israel (Yavneh, Israel)
Date:
Late 7th Century BCE