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The turning wheel runs round and round.
It opens and closes the exit of my gate.
Noisily it turns for ruin and destruction.
My head is split, my entrails spilled.
It chases and it catches…
Contributor:
Solomon de Oliveyra
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
17th Century
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This printed amulet to protect a woman in childbirth features a central scene depicting Adam and Eve and several animals in the Garden of Eden, with a snake coiled around the forbidden “tree of…
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Abraham Bar Jacob
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
ca. 1700
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In order that all the simple…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1651
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As it is written in the Zohar, Shelakh lekha: Women are privileged to merit the joy of the righteous who do the work of the Lord. They establish merit for their portion among the righteous. Men and…
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Simon Frankfurt
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1703
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Sefer Raziel (also known as The Book of Raziel the Angel) is a book of practical kabbalah that may have been composed in the thirteenth century, though scholars believe parts of it date from earlier…
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Moses Mendez Coutinho
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1701