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Shene luḥot ha-berit (Two Tablets of the Covenant): On Shavuot
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The study program of this night has already been published and made known to the multitudes through the pamphlets that have been disseminated. And this custom has been disseminated throughout all of…

Contributor:

Isaiah Horowitz

Places:

Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

ca. 1623

Subjects:

Holidays, Shavuot, Torah study, Ritual & observance

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, Ethics
Almanac for the Year 5675
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The Molad is Wednesday evening, 10 minutes and 9 halakim on 6 [6:10.9 pm] Iyar 5675—April 1915—Taurus—(29 days) [Hebrew Date] [Day of the week] [Christian Date] [Islamic Date] 1st Thursday Se…

Contributor:

Eliezer Ya‘akov Podhorzer

Places:

Safed, Ottoman Palestine (Safed, Israel)

Date:

1914

Subjects:

Calendar, Holidays, Jewish identity, Prayer, Torah study

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Lists & Catalogues, History
Facing pages with Yiddish text in columns and some French and English text in margins.
Ezra Reads the Teaching to the People
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When the seventh month arrived—the Israelites being [settled] in their towns—the entire people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE

Subjects:

Canon/canonization, Sukkot, Rosh Hashanah, Torah study, Holidays

Categories:

Literature
Aerial photograph of stone city ruins.