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When our teacher Rabbi Solomon, who was a rabbi here in Aleppo, passed away without any male children, the rabbis [of the city] consulted among themselves, and with the elders of the people and the…
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Raphael Laniado
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Aleppo, Ottoman Empire (Aleppo, Syria)
Date:
1787
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A halakhic decision written by Netanel Trabotto about singers [accompanying prayer in the synagogue] who repeated the word crown as well as the Name of God, and they…
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Netanel Trabotto, Abraham Graziano
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1645
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“He goes back four cubits etc.”
This implies that he must move backwards, but not forwards or to the sides. [ . . . ] It seems that this action was instituted by the sages only for an individual…
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Joel Sirkes
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1631–1640
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Throughout the tribes of Israel, we faithfully made it known how the holy and wise Nathan of Gaza came here to our camp. He said that he was a prophet, bringing news of the coming of the Redeemer and…
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Samuel Aboab
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Ipsala, Ottoman Empire (Ipsala, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1694
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Regarding this recent occurrence of some men going and walking around the Galilee and Judea [the region of Lithuania] and preaching in public without the permission or authorization of the local rabbi…
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The Council of the Lands of Lithuania
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Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lithuania)
Date:
1667
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Living in accordance with the Halakhah, demarcating a sphere of the sacred through halakhic practice—is this the ultimate end of the religious life? The answer is both yes and no. On the one hand…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1953