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I have found written in the handwriting of the sage, our master, the crown and glory that rests upon our heads, the perfect sage and excellent judge, who is modest and happy in all his affairs. His…
Meanwhile, the beautiful Saâda wandered the streets of Blidah . . . She continued straight ahead, without purpose or thought.
She went . . . She found Blida banal with its one-story European…
Let us recount a story of the old days, of what happened to a great man who lived then.
He was our Rav Danon,
may his name endure forever.
We will not forget him ever,
We will extol him before God,
f…
Rabbis are becoming angry with our redeemerOur king and the shekhinah is heAnd it is for good and for the good of our King and for the goodof the six hundred thousand of Israel that all followed him …
From the rabbis and geonim of the holy city of Safed, may it be speedily rebuilt in our days, sent to Modena, may God protect it, in 5370 [1610]He shall be called a holy man [see Isaiah 4:3]; the…
At the gate of the inner courtyard, where the eunuchs and all of the great men of the kingdom were standing before the king, they were standing there, and Amira was sitting, and the aforementioned…
Istanbul has been blessed with a unique geography. It is for this reason that a neighborhood appearing no larger than a pin on the map will reveal itself as a sprawling snarl of intricate lanes and…
And it came to pass in the days of Sultan Murad [IV], King of Turkey, may his majesty be exalted, in the third year of his reign, which is the year 5385 from creation [1625], the upright prince…
At that time, this story [parashah] was written: a great event happened to the Jews, which caused downfall such as never had been in the world before and never would occur again. They came before the…
It was in the year 5457, which is the year 1109 in their calendar [1697 CE], in the month of Tevet, when the chill and the cold began and the water of the great river Ozo Sway [the Dnieper…