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Ladino Song on the Conversion of Shabbetai Tzvi
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 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 …

Contributor:

Unknown

Places:

Ottoman Empire (Turkey)

Date:

ca. 1700

Subjects:

Messianism, Mysticism, Kabbalah, Conversion, Muslim-Jewish relations, Poetry, Prophets & prophecy

Categories:

Prophetic Literature, Popular Poetry
Sefer musar haskel (Book of Moral Lessons)
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We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons: The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…

Contributor:

Isaac Bekhor Amarachi, Joseph ben Meir Sason

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

1843

Subjects:

Translation, Health, Medicine, Messianism, Morality, Theology

Categories:

Theology
Shalom Yerushalayim (Peace of Jerusalem)
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For our great sins, a few days later we received the news of the terrible fire, which God caused to happen on the night of Rosh…

Contributor:

Judah Alkalai

Places:

Semlin, Austrian Empire (Zemun, Serbia)

Date:

1840

Subjects:

Messianism, Holidays, Rosh Hashanah, Repentance, Theology

Categories:

Theology, Historical writing