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When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
Contributor:
Isaac Ber Levinzon
Places:
Kremenets, Russian Empire (Kremenets, Ukraine)
Date:
1833
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Look from the top of Amana (Song of Songs 4:8) and [see the type of] negotiation carried out faithfully [emunah]:
1. Be diligent in your transactions, to ensure that they are…
Contributor:
Abraham ha-Levi Horowitz
Places:
Lvov, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century
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The city of N. is built in three rings. First ring: the marketplace at the very center. Second: surrounding the market, the great city proper with its many houses, streets, byways, back…
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Der Nister
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Kharkov, USSR (Kharkiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1939
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My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…
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Naphtali ha-Kohen Katz
Places:
Russian Empire (Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1718