Showing Results 71 - 80 of 111
Safed is in the upper Galilee, in the Naftali region, with the bulk of the city atop the mountain. Surrounding the city’s mountain are some four mountains; on two of them, all the people are…
Chapter 15. In Explanation of Bills of Exchange Called Cambii and of Maritime Insurance
We could have dispensed with the discussion of bills of exchange which are called in Italian cambii since they…
We the undersigned have agreed that, seeing the difficulty that there is to collect what every particular member of our Nation must…
“There are two synagogues of the German Jews, and one of the Portuguese, twenty-four cubits broad and forty-two long. Each one has its own management; thus the income of one is not mixed with that of…
For contracting the path [magically speeding one’s travel—Ed.]: take a kosher parchment and write on it in purity and cleanliness. This requires great intention [kavanah] in the names: “In the name…
In the 18th of the Month of Elul: the 5404 year from the Worlds creation, and according to common compute, in 1644. Aaron Levi, otherwise called Antonius Montezinus c…
Prophecy of Egypt: The Lord rides a light cloud and will come to Egypt, and Idols of Egypt will move before him, and the heart of Egypt shall melt away in him.
Upon a light cloud the Lord…
And praised be the Lord—the Sabbath came and rest came, on Friday night at five in the evening, the strong wind calmed a bit, and we sailed well on Friday, Saturday, Sunday; and on Monday, we saw…
…They landed in Lod at night, on the eve of the Day of Judgment.
After lengthy procedures at the airport (a bureaucrat-girl with the same heavy accent, just as tired and pale, couldn’t understand, for…
Gutke found her journal at the bottom of her midwife’s bag and opened it for the first time that year:
Even with my talent for visions, I never would have guessed half of what happened. I suppose that…