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Purim Letters
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Mordecai recorded these events. And he sent dispatches to all the Jews throughout the provinces of King Ahasuerus, near and far, charging them to observe the fourteenth and fifteenth days of Adar…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Purim, Writing, Holidays, Diaspora, Food and drink, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Igerot Shadal (Letters of Samuel David Luzzatto)
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I am a friend to all lovers of Torah and wisdom and my only desire and my complete salvation rest in disseminating the sources of the Torah in order that the earth will be full of the knowledge of God…

Contributor:

Samuel David Luzzatto

Places:

Padua, Austrian Empire (Padova, Italy)

Date:

1851

Subjects:

Prayer & liturgy, Print, Diaspora, Ritual & observance, Scholarship, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters
Jeremiah’s Letter to the Jewish Exiles in Babylonia
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This is the text of the letter which the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the priests, the prophets, the rest of the elders of the exile community, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Diaspora, Blessings & curses, Prophets & prophecy, Punishment, Prayer & liturgy, Letters

Categories:

Firsthand accounts, Letters