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So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived in the same town with Naboth. In the letters she wrote as follows:…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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To the city of Yemen, Sheikh Shalom, on the 4th of Shevat [9th January 1742] from the Constantinople officials, may the Lord protect them.
The son of a valiant man, who had done mighty deeds, of…
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Constantinople Officials
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1742
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And so let it be known to your Excellency what happened to the letter that your Excellency sent me with the etrogs [citrons]. The letter was not handed to me until the [week of the] Sabbath of Vayetze…
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Asenath Barazani
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Mosul, Ottoman Empire (Mosul, Iraq)
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Early 17th Century
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[ . . . ] For the whole day after I received your letter, I had the same celebratory mood that one feels after a cleansing and encouraging spiritual moment. Yet I am too weak to hold on to it. In…
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Rachel Katznelson-Shazar
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Ottoman Palestine (Israel)
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1916
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Do you deem me to be hard and evil-hearted in that I should hasten to do a match during my period of mourning? Am I to forget the love of the wife of my youth, my pure dove, whom God graciously gave…
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Akiva Eger
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Märkisch Friedland, Kingdom of Prussia (Mirosławiec, Poland)
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1796
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After wishing you good health and well-being and kissing your hand, as is befitting, and also to Madame my mother, blessed among women, amen, and to all the members of the household, may the Rock…
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Abraham Ishmael Ḥay Sanguinetti
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Acre, Ottoman Empire (Acre, Israel)
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1741
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Tiberias, March 7, 1909To the Very Honorable Miss Szold,I am certain that you will be surprised that after a year and a half of silence I am suddenly taking up our correspondence with this long letter…
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Manya Wilbushewitz Shoḥat
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Tiberias, Ottoman Palestine (Tabarīya, Israel)
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1909