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You shall not tolerate a sorceress.
Whoever lies with a beast shall be put to death.
Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the Lord alone shall be proscribed.
You shall not wrong…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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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)
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1847
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Israelites! If, scattered over the whole surface of the earth and intermingled with all nations, you remain attached to the old religion of your ancestors, however weak be the bond that unites you…
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Alliance Israélite Universelle
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Paris, French Empire (Paris, France)
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1860
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Job again took up his theme and said:
O that I were as in months gone by,
In the days when God watched over me,
When His lamp shone over my head,
When I walked in the dark by its light…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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In the name of God Amen I Judith Baruh Alvares of the parish of Port Royal in the island of Jamaica widow being in an ill state of health but of sound mind and disposing memory thanks be to my eternal…
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Judith Baruh Alvares
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Port Royal, British America and the British West Indies (Port Royal, Jamaica)
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1732
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I ask your Honor to do me the favor of making known to me your opinion as to how one should nowadays understand the degree of sanctity of the Holy Land; and if there is any merit in living there, for…
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Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1705
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Offstage, Edom and Jonen Dalim.Edom:Chase that filthy beggar away from my door!Jonen:God punishes those who despise the poor.Israel:Edom sees my tatters and feels disgust…
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Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1683/4
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[Vocabulary list in (from right to left) Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian, with notes in French and English]CavernAntreПещераהאֶהלעמעְרָָהTo miss(the aim)ManquerНе пѳпадатьвъ цвль,פערפעהלעןפעהל שיעסעןהחַט…
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Israel Ḥayim Taviov
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Riga, Russian Empire (Riga, Latvia)
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1896
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For the two reasons specified below, I have given myself the surname “Wasserzug”; the first reason is that when I was five or six years of age, I was playing with some young children, I believe, in a…
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Moses Wasserzug
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Płock, Kingdom of Prussia (Płock, Poland)
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ca. 1820
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Toward the end of the reign of Moulay Hassan, there was a cadi whose avarice was so great that he was likened to a tomb, for the tomb, ever receiving, never gives anything back. The cadi accepted…
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Elisa Chimenti
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1950