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King Solomon (may he rest in peace) said: The righteous man walketh in his integrity [Proverbs 20:7]. Now this means that a man should follow God’s…
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Jacob Ashkenazi of Janov
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Janov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Janów Lubelski, Poland)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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I shall recount the love of God, the faithful God,
I shall study his words, and prostrate myself to the formidable God, the Lord,
I shall walk in his paths, to the central land, my palace.
Happy…
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Amīnā
Places:
Kashan, Safavid Iran (Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1719/20
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The Harrison Miscellany is an early eighteenth-century codex of sixty leaves featuring delicate gouache illustrations and Hebrew texts. Each illustration (likely executed by a Venetian, non-Jewish…
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Artist Unknown
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Corfu, Venice (Corfu, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1720
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I am your God and Lord
Who with infinite power
Freed you from Egypt
Where you lived in suffering
And harsh despair.
Do not revere
Foreign gods before me,
And make no trophies
In the likeness of the…
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Leonor de Carvajal
Places:
Spanish Empire (Mexico)
Date:
1589–1595
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My heart overflows inside me [see Psalms 45:2]; my heart, my heart moans [see Jeremiah 4:19], racing back and forth [see Ezekiel 1:14]; I am astounded by a voice, a voice that calls to me, saying to…
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Moses Alsheikh
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1590