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Lisbon, July 26. Here three rich Portuguese were detained on suspicion of secretly having practiced their faith. And their lives would have been spared if, God forbid, they would have…
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…
This is a short compendium of the sheḥitot [rules for kosher slaughter] taken from Rabbenu Moshe [Maimonides] and Rabbenu Ya‘akob [Jacob ben Asher], without any errors about what is required, and with…
I adapted the above psalm to my situation, for the blessed Lord freed me from the Inquisition—although broken, I was released and free—where I saw eleven seeming penitents burned to death for heresy…
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…
An apology for the fact that this is written in the language of Ashkenaz (in Hochdeutch [German]). In my opinion, there are two good reasons for this: first, I have found written in…
For I heard slander, fear was on every side [see Psalms 31:14], as the son of the despised maidservant slanders the son of the mistress, saying, “Those miserable Jews, they had a single language from…
Rules and regulations of Talmud Torah, now consolidated, and the general council of our community of Hamburg, whereby the members of the general council shall elect as parnasim (community leaders)…
The Messrs. Parnassim of T: T: [Talmud Torah—Ed.] having disclosed to the gentlemen of the Mahamad [board of governors—Ed.] and councillors the liberty which the students…
In answer to those who ask me whether or not it is permitted to paint the walls of the synagogue with pictures of grass, trees, and calyxes, we researched the question and our answer is as follows:
At…