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Our God is one. You are my God: Hallelujah!
Who created me, body and soul: Hallelujah!
You created Heaven and earth: Hallelujah!
We will praise You forever: Hallelujah!
You…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
Places:
Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
Prague, Czech Republic
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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The love of the Sabbath “Remember and Keep” Preparing my way For Intellect and Soul,To greet the bride, Give joy to the tribes In mercy draw And say to my soul, My thoughts, my…
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Shalem Shabazī
Places:
Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
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Since time immemorial Jews in every city would customarily kasher the dishes they use throughout the year for Passover—glassware by soaking, and pots by heating them to a very high temperature. But a…
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Rosalea Gershenowitz, Alexander Zederbaum
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1884
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Are we always and in all circumstances united with our surroundings, so that only the synagogue, rather than society, attests to separation?
Do not believe that in such unity and cooperation I mean…
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Abraham Wertheim
Places:
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Date:
1893
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“What you spend in honor of the holy days, the Lord will richly reward!” says the Talmud, and pious Pinchas granted everything his wife demanded. Clothes for the children and ornaments for herself…
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Leopold Weisel
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Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1847
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The reading of Tetsaveh on [Shabbat] Zakhor, [the Sabbath immediately preceding Purim]:
A remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of…
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Israel de Curiel
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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Near sunset one shall light a Shabbat candle and before saying the blessing it is necessary to say “I am not receiving Shabbat” even if one already lit it, until it is Shabbat.
And then…
Contributor:
Meir Benveniste
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
ca. 1565
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Riboyne shel oylem, Almighty God, You created heaven and earth and all creatures with great compassion within six days and with only ten words. And on the seventh day, which is shabes koydesh, You…
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Leah Horowitz
Places:
Glogau, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Głogów, Poland)
Date:
Mid–18th Century
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As on this month’s last day,
the moon is waning,
make my sins wane, O Lord,
my merits flourish.
I know my heart is hard—
a wicked web whose threads are sin—
and I deserve the fire
for weaving wrong…
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Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
17th Century