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Azulai authored a detailed travelogue recounting his two journeys to Europe. The travelogue documents Azulai's encounters with various communities, rare books and manuscripts, and the challenges of overseas travel, including storms, pirates, custom officials, and occasional hostility from non-Jewish
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along the way. Emissaries had to be willing to undertake dangerous journeys mission that would separate them away from their families for so long. One in ten emissaries sent abroad for these fundraising missions never made it back alive. Emissaries would often divorce their wives before leaving, so
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that if they died along the way and their deaths could not be verified, their wives would be able to legally remarry. If they returned safely from their journey, they would remarry their wives, who would sometimes wait as long as five years for their husbands to return from their mission.
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Talmudist, and a believer in the Kabbalah, his studious habits and exceptional memory awakened in him an interest in the history of rabbinical literature.
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authors had tried to solve questions that were based on chronological errors. This compilation, which he completed at age 16, he called העלם דבר (
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582:but also in
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79:(1806-03-01)
77:1 March 1806
29:
1321:1806 deaths
1316:1724 births
1198:12 February
1144:24 December
691:Isaac Luria
444:Birke Yosef
351:Jonah Nabon
235:, reaching
210:bibliophile
106:Nationality
1311:Kabbalists
1305:Categories
1175:24 January
1122:26 January
1070:30 January
979:References
881:, and the
797:. He left
754:edited by
750:The diary
679:Haim Vital
659:Chronicles
546:homiletics
406:Vilna Gaon
367:chiddushim
347:Ohr HaHaim
208:, a noted
940:Acharonim
887:Amsterdam
811:Amsterdam
560:His works
554:liturgics
550:casuistry
530:meshulach
518:dialectic
442:entitled
402:Lithuania
316:Jerusalem
310:Biography
303:Leviticus
300: (
247:, Italy,
202:Jerusalem
140:Signature
121:Palestine
63:Jerusalem
935:Rishonim
923:Savoraim
875:Florence
768:No. 868.
687:Kabbalah
624:Sephardi
566:Halachic
542:exegesis
378:shaliach
359:Kabbalah
320:Moroccan
214:Sephardi
156:Position
127:Children
96:Religion
51:Personal
1260::
1223:(ed.).
1029:Azulai.
918:Amoraim
913:Tannaim
847:Germany
835:Ali Bey
831:Russian
823:Gentile
803:Tunisia
733:Hazan,
672:Ketuvim
615:Midrash
605:halakha
576:Livorno
491:Leghorn
471:Livorno
452:Holland
429:Morocco
425:Tunisia
413:Germany
333:rabbis
257:Livorno
253:Holland
245:Tunisia
194:acronym
100:Judaism
89:Etruria
85:Livorno
930:Geonim
903:Chazal
877:, the
869:, the
843:Europe
799:Israel
795:Hebron
787:shadar
683:Miriam
668:Neviim
612:) and
584:Mantua
535:Europe
503:Petira
448:France
390:Hebron
386:Europe
361:, and
355:Talmud
341:, and
322:Rabbi
271:Azulai
251:, and
249:France
241:London
225:Hebron
182:Hebrew
164:Buried
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747:1879;
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421:Egypt
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290:חללה
275:Kohen
229:Italy
204:born
198:חיד"א
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1177:2017
1146:2015
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1072:2017
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670:and
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578:and
499:ohel
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190:Hida
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59:1724
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286:נה
282:שה
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