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The current expenses of the city of Jerusalem, may it be speedily rebuilt and reestablished in our days, are close to five thousand kuruş per annum. This is not the case for Safed and Hebron. In the…
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Raphael Mordechai Malki
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
Late 17th Century
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Abraham Rovigo (1650–1713) was born in Modena and studied kabbalah under Moses Zacuto in Venice. Rovigo’s wealth enabled him to devote himself to study and to support pious endeavors. Swept up by…
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Mordechai de Lattes
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1702
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To the city of Yemen, Sheikh Shalom, on the 4th of Shevat [9th January 1742] from the Constantinople officials, may the Lord protect them.
The son of a valiant man, who had done mighty deeds, of…
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Constantinople Officials
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1742
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This is to announce to all interested in my book that when the head of the printers, the princely Daniel Bomberg, the Christian, decided to print the Twenty…
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Elye Bokher
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1538
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And the work was finished on the eve of Sabbath, in
the month of Shebat, in the year 307, in the great
city of Venice which is under the rule of
the Signoria, may God increase their
glory, and in the…
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Cornelio Adelkind
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
Date:
1547
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1. Whenever the term idolaters appears, and it is not clearly referring…
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Domenico Gerosolomitano
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1596
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Greetings, Islah.
Now, I shall dispatch legumes tomorrow. Meet the boat tomorrow on Sabbath. Lest, if they get lost, by the life of YHH, I swear that I will take your life. Do not rely on Meshullemeth…
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Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt
Date:
ca. 475 BCE
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And after the rabbi [Joseph Karo] went to Safed he studied in the study house of the rabbi, our master, Jacob Berab, and became a disciple of our master R. Berab, as is written in several places. The…
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David Conforte
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1678
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The author had a tradition from his ancestors, also based on a book of his genealogy that was lost in all the upheavals of the expulsion and the persecutions, that this holy and lofty family, whose…
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Barukh Uziel Hazaketto
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1550
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In the year 5289 (1528/29), the holy martyrs of Pösing, 36 souls—men and women, youths and young girls—were arrested because of a false accusation made by a mamzer, and they died for the…
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Josel of Rosheim
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(Alsace, France)
Date:
1551/2