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Dispatch of Food
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[Greetings, PN,] from [PN]. [No]w, I [sen]t to you, saying: “Do not dispatch to me bread without it being sealed.” Lo, all the jars are impure. Behold, the bread which [you] dispatch[ed] to me…

Places:

Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)

Date:

Early 5th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Food and drink, Purity, Kashrut, Diaspora

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Responsum: On a Dispute over a Vineyard
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Question: From Rhodes. When the Lord expanded the borders [see Deuteronomy 19:8] of the dispersion of the diaspora and granted us a remnant and remainder in the kingdom of Turkey, He treated us with…

Contributor:

David Ibn Abi Zimra

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

Mid–16th Century

Subjects:

Economic life, Finance, Food and drink, Kashrut, Diaspora

Categories:

Law, Responsa
Responsum: On Coffee
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Question: I will inform you regarding my opinion on the fruit called al bun, and about kahve [coffee], which is the broth brewed from the husks of that fruit, and which is drunk by non-Jews, whether…

Contributor:

David Ibn Abi Zimra

Places:

Cairo, Ottoman Empire (Cairo, Egypt)

Date:

Mid–16th Century

Subjects:

Food and drink, Kashrut, Interfaith relations, Halakhah

Categories:

Law, Responsa