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A book titled in Ladino Obligasyon de los korazones [Duty of the Hearts] because it is translated from a text written by the pious gaon, our master Baḥya the judge, of blessed…
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Tsaddik Formon
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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16th Century
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In correctly understanding the truest theory, there were many opinions; but I will bring two…
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Tuviah ha-Kohen
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire (Edirne, Turkey)
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1707
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Don’t overshadow anyone. Know that you have an obligation to observe 613 commandments, because many of them you have to perform, but they can be done conjointly; so that when one commandment is…
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Abraham Farrar
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1627
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We have placed in ḥerem [excommunication] David Henriq[ue]s, alias David Almansa, [and] Aron and Ishack Dias da Fonseca and the account reads, as follows:
(In Adar I). The gentlemen of the Mahamad…
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The Spanish and Portuguese Jewish Community of Amsterdam
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1712
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Moses who was God’s unique messenger,
Who revealed the Path of God to humankind,
In God’s Presence at Mount Sinai
He received knowledge and insight,
The Torah, the Truth, and the Path
He accepted…
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‘Imrānī
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Isfahan, Ottoman Empire (Isfahan, Iran)
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Early 16th Century
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502. Since our eyes have seen the great neglect of Torah among schoolchildren, caused by [not] printing of folios of the Gemara [with Rashi’s commentary], because the…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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1655, 1667, 1679
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Yetkhen:And how crude he was with me! He wants to arrange with Papa to marry me! How do you like that? I’d like to meet the man who’ll force me to marry someone! No! No father can do that—I have…
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Aaron Halle-Wolfsohn
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Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia (Wrocław, Poland)
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1796
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Behold, I am aged and my eyes are dim and my hands heavy and shaky, and at a time when my strength, enabling me to remain standing upon my watch, is ebbing away—with the yoke of the…
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Pinchas Katzenellenbogen
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Boskovice, Holy Roman Empire (Boskovice, Czech Republic)
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1760
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980. It is written in Re’shit ḥokhmah [The Beginning of Wisdom (1579), by Elijah de Vidas]: The name of the Ten Days of Repentance indicates that they were ordained to amend the year. They are days of…
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Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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17th Century
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There is a severe admonition addressed to every individual within Israel not to add any precept on his own initiative onto those precepts which are written in the Torah, and…
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Simḥah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
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Lutsk, Russian Empire (Lutsk, Ukraine)
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ca. 1750