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At the beginning of the month of Tammuz 5349 [began June 15, 1589], in order not to remain idle, I began to give lessons in Torah to the son of Manasseh Levi of blessed memory and to Joseph the son of…
[ . . . ] Let us return to my maternal grandmother, Matte, of blessed memory. After she married off my late aunt Ulk, she was left penniless with the fatherless child my mother, may she live…
This is the story of a queen who gave her daughter in marriage to a young king and then gave her the following instructions, inasmuch as she was about to be married. Since she was sending the daughter…
O most high and sovereign Creator of heaven and earth, not one of Your countless creatures can resist Your will. Without it neither men nor birds nor brutish beasts could live upon the earth. Unless…
This is the text of the letter that Tattenai, governor of the province of Beyond the River, and Shethar-boze-nai and his colleagues, the officials of Beyond the River, sent to King Darius…
Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Lands.
Again, I caution you: when you go to some feast in celebration of the performance of a mitzvah, do not focus only on eating and drinking. Rather, you should first ask some sort of praiseworthy…
In the year fifteen hundred and forty-nine, the seventh indiction, the first day of the month of February, during the time of the pontificate of the Holy Father in Christ Our Lord, Lord Paul III, pope…
We the undersigned went in to visit R. David ben R. Moses Verlengo, may God preserve him, and found him ill, lying on his bed, but his words and speech were lucid and correct and orderly in his mouth…
In the name of God Amen I Rachel Luis being sick of body but of sound mind and Memory Do make this my last will and Testamit in manner and form following that is to say I wish and order that after my…