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Six days left. Less than a week! That means, after next Saturday I would no longer see Sayyid. I couldn’t sleep. I didn’t change my clothes. I gritted my teeth, because I was afraid the shriek…
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Sami Michael, Nurit Serfaty
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1979
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It happened in the days of Ahasuerus—that Ahasuerus who reigned over a hundred and twenty-seven provinces from India to Ethiopia. In those days, when King Ahasuerus occupied the royal…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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Question: . . . When Rabbi Joseph Ottolenghi was visiting this land, he told me that he printed sixteen megillot on parchment prepared for this purpose [i.e., to be used for the scrolls—Ed.]. When I…
Contributor:
Moses Provenzali
Places:
Mantua, Holy Roman Empire (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1560
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Their custom on the night of Purim was for each individual to pray in his own private domain and home, and…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Abulafia
Places:
Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
Date:
1736