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“ . . . And all those who are on the left side go and wander in the world and seek to dress themselves in the body.”—From Zohar Beraishit
When the Havdoleh candle is extinguished,
In Gehenna, the…
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Aaron Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
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ca. 1920
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Instead of their seals, they placed their fingernails.
Fingernail of Zakuri, fingernail of Dukur-ili, owners of the man being sold.
Mannu-ki-Arba’il, son of Ahiyau—Bahianu contracted from Zakuri and…
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Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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700 BCE
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On the day that Tabat-Ishar, daughter of Yashe-Yama, is seen with Kulu, son of Kalba, or he takes her away by deceit, if she does not put up resistance and does not say to the head of the family:…
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Sippar, Babylonia (Tell Abu Habbah, Iraq)
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531 BCE
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In the seventh year, on the tenth day of the fifth month, certain elders of Israel came to inquire of the Lord, and sat down before me. And the word of the Lord came to me:
O mortal, speak to the…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Shout, O heavens, and rejoice, O earth!
Break into shouting, O hills!
For the Lord has comforted His people,
And has taken back His afflicted ones in love. [ . . . ]
Swiftly your children are…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Awake, awake, O Zion!
Clothe yourself in splendor;
Put on your robes of majesty,
Jerusalem, holy city!
For the uncircumcised and the unclean
Shall never enter you again.
Arise, shake…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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No decree can be nullified, but one can be changed by the Cause of causes.
The matters of the fastings and their cry (Esther 9:31)
In the first chapter of tractate…
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Menaḥem Rava
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Padua, Venice (Padua, Italy)
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16th Century
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All the letters in this beautiful new prayer book,
from beginning to end, I set with my own hands.
Gele, daughter of R. Moses the printer
and Frau Freide, who bore me among ten children, may they…
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Gele bat Moses ben Abraham Ger
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Halle, Duchy of Magdeburg (Halle, Germany)
Date:
1710
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Don’t overshadow anyone. Know that you have an obligation to observe 613 commandments, because many of them you have to perform, but they can be done conjointly; so that when one commandment is…
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Abraham Farrar
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1627
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1): In that part of the land of Canaan where his father had lived, similar to the verse: [To Mamre, to Kiryat…
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Ovadiah Sforno
Places:
Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)
Date:
Before 1550