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Text endorsing regulations concerning the playing of instrumental music and other entertainments, and the night-time bridal procession, drafted by me with the powerful endorsement of the sages—may…
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The Jewish Community of Salonika
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1654
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On Tuesday afternoon prayers, when the cantor reaches Taḥanun [prayers of supplication], the groom walks to the door of the synagogue while the congregation recites Taḥanun, and…
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Judah Leib Kirchheim
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1631
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Question: The following incident occurred: The gentlemen, R. Abraham Vidal, may he rest in peace, was married to the modest lady, Estrella, sister of the fine young man, R. David Pinto, may God…
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Jacob Castro
Places:
Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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The incident was as follows: A woman came before me from a backwater Jewish town weeping bitterly over the sins of her youth, as she had been unfaithful to her first husband before she married her…
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Unknown
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Holy Roman Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1689
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In the month of Tishri, that is Epeiph, year four of Darius the king, then in Elephantine the fortress, Ananiah son of Haggai, an Aramean of Elephantine the fortress of the detachment of Iddinnabu…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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420 BCE|449 BCE
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I request my husband to dispose as follows:I would wish to be able to give my family in Berlin the capital of 10,000 gulden held for me by my husband . . . my pearls, as my favorite pieces of jewelery…
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Fanny von Arnstein
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1793