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Even though the fifteenth of the month of Shevat is during the period of shovevim, one does not fast, for it is the New Year’s Day for fruit trees. And with the tikkun [mystical repair] performed on…
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Unknown
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Smyrna, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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1731/32
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By way of our prayers and our practical commandments that we perform below, we need to cause a coupling of the male and the female, and we raise them up…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Second half of the 16th Century
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You already know that concerning all matters of supernal attainment, one needs to be alone in his house so that others will not disturb his thought, and he himself needs to…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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First Half of the 17th Century
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Because the ineffable four-letter name of the Tetragrammaton is located in ‘Adam Qadmon, it will be…
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Abraham Cohen de Herrera
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1630
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May His great name be blessed! Before everything, it occurred to His simple will to create worlds, for there is no king without a people, as it is said: In the multitude of people is the…
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Naphtali Bacharach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1648
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Then Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests set to and rebuilt the Sheep Gate; they consecrated it and set up its doors, consecrating it as far as the Hundred’s Tower, as far as the Tower of…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Persian Period, 6th–4th Century BCE
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Prosecutor’s evidence: In Herrera on the twenty-first of May in the year 1500, before the lord inquisitors in the general inquisition.
Witness: Inés, daughter of Juan Esteban, residing in the town of…
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Inés of Herrera
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Herrera del Duque, Spanish Empire (Herrera del Duque, Spain)
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1501
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In the 18th of the Month of Elul: the 5404 year from the Worlds creation, and according to common compute, in 1644. Aaron Levi, otherwise called Antonius Montezinus c…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1652
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But leaving aside these allegations, and judging without passion, do they lack their own merits that would allow them to be saved with us, as we desire? No.
1. For their part they possess the…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1655
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The Lord came down in a cloud; He stood with him there, and proclaimed the name Lord. The Lord passed before him and proclaimed: “The Lord! the Lord!a God compassionate and gracious, slow to…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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