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Ḥavvot Yair (The Villages of Yair): On Ceremonial Objects
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Question: A woman pledged, when she lay ill, to give her disukia, which is embroidered with gilt silver thread, to be made into a ceremonial object for the synagogue. The disukia is what is called in…

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Yair Ḥayim Bacharach

Places:

Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)

Date:

1699

Subjects:

Ritual objects, Dress, Synagogue, Holidays, Rabbis, Law, Responsa

Categories:

Law, Responsa
Appointment of Isaiah Horowitz as Communal Rabbi
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We have accepted upon ourselves the rabbi, aluf, the gaon, our teacher and master R. Isaiah ben R. Abraham ha-Levi, of blessed memory, to serve as our av bet din [head of the court] and rosh yeshiva…

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The Jewish Community of Frankfurt am Main

Places:

Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)

Date:

1606

Subjects:

Government, Leadership, Communal organizations, Rabbis, Justice system, Law, Responsa

Categories:

Law, Rabbinic law, Responsa