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Painting from Safed,Palestine. The story of Abraham and Isaac,and of the angel halting the sacrifice.The inscription asks to remember the "akedah",the binding of Isaac" on the high holidays.Painting by Moshe Mizrachi,a Persian jew who came to Palestine in 1880.
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Painting from Safed,Palestine. The story of Abraham and Isaac,and of the angel h...

Book of prayers and blessings, from Germany,late 18th It was the custom in small communities, for a father-in-law to give his new daughter-in-law such a book, instructing her on when to say what prayer or blessing. Parchment.
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Book of prayers and blessings, from Germany,late 18th It was the custom in sma...