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On the twenty-fourth day of the counting [of the Omer] may there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. The handmaids of the emperor’s house would sing his praises: “no eye-shadow…
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Solomon Luria
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
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Mid–16th Century
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On the thirty-third day of the counting [of the Omer, i.e., Lag b’Omer]. May there be tranquility and pleasantness in your chamber of Torah. May God continuously save the beautiful pearl, for whom the…
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Moses Isserles
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
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Mid–16th Century
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And moreover, that which is called “external wisdom” is indeed the daughter of my father [see Genesis 12:20], a good doctrine (Proverbs 4:2) and a gift of God [see Ecclesiastes 3:13], who graces us…
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Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Candia, Venice (Heraklion, Greece)
Date:
1629
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Which tells how a certain man took up with a prostitute in Hamburg, his first wife hearing of this came from Poland, how he was forced to give her a writ of divorce and this almost cost him his life…
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Unknown
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic
Date:
1675
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The little lightning bolt of Yemen flashed, despite the overwhelming darkness,
Spurring on sheets of dewy rain to the joy of mankind,
The rivers of Paradise are streams, watering the roses and the…
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Shalem Shabazī
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Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)
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ca. 1679/80
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Love for an honored woman illuminates my mind’s eye and my imagination,
While I praise her beauty, for she comforts me in my exile.
My soul is like a lone bird and each night she greets the face of…
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Shalem Shabazī
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Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)
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ca. 1679/80
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Hear my cry, O Lord,Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.Have mercy, fight my battle for me,For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.Long have I inhabited a foreign land,Afflicted with bloody…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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Like a wooer and a husbandI devote myself to your faithsince being a husband does not implya courtly surrender.Like a wooer I pursue your lovebecause I wish to meritthe privileges of a husbandthough I…
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Abraham Gómez Silveira
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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We have a lovely tale at hand,
It’s come to us from a distant land,
That land is West India, and
Many people in the world
Call that area the New World.
Our tale’s about a wife who let her spouse
Leav…
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Unknown
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
Date:
ca. 1665
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Amon and Deborah His WifeAmon:Proclaim to the citizens of our city that in joy and gladness we propose to marry our daughter Beruriah to the handsome Jedidiah, Sholom’s son. Our most…
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Judah Sommo
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1550