1524 Schulchan Aruch
Safed In Safed Rabbi Yosef Caro writes his famous book, Schulchan Aruch He will lead the Jewish Community there until 1575 Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
Archive for August, 2017
1523 Martin Luther
Jesus Christ Was Born a Jew “Conversion of the Jews will be the work of God alone operating from within, and not of a man working ― or rather playing ― from without. If these offences be taken away, worse will follow. For they are thus given over by the wrath of God to reprobation, […]
1522 Islamic Murder, Mayhem, and Mutilation
Safed “The Jews of Egypt sent them (e.g. Jews of Safed) clothing and more than 3,000 gold florins. Rabbi Nissan Biba, who organized the aid, went to Safed to help rehabilitate the victims. By the time Rabbi Moses Basola arrived in Safed five years after the conquest, the flourishing city showed no signs of that […]
1521 The Temple Mount
There are various accounts of Suleiman the Magnificent efforts to locate the Temple’s ruins. Rabbi Eliezer Nachman Puah, (1540), relates: I have been told that in the day of Sultan Suleiman the site of the Temple was not known and the Sultan had every corner of Jerusalem searched for it. One day the man in […]
1521 Safed
Rabbi Moshe Basula visits Israel. In his writing he reports on the Jewish city of Safed and its strong wool and textile industry. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
1520 Jerusalem
Rabbi Yehiel Ashkenazi moves back to Israel from Italy and becomes the leader of the Ashkenazi Jews in Jerusalem. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
1519 The Jews of Jerusalem
Enzina, Juan de la: Viage y pereginacion que hizo y escribio en verso Castellano el famoso poeta Juan de Enzina en compañia del Marqués del Tarifa. Madrid 1786, 34-81. Rivera, D. Fadrique Enriquez de, marqués de Tarifa… Viaje q, hiƶe a Jerusalem de todas las cosas que en el me pasaron desde que salide mi […]
1518 Safed
Rabbi Moshe of Trani becomes the leader of the Jewish community in Safed. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
1518 The Jews of Jerusalem
Salignac, Barthélemy de: Itinerarium Terrae Sanctae, Paris, 1525 XXIIIb- XCIIIa. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography.
1517 Safed
Rabbi Moshe of Trani becomes the leader of the Jewish community in Safed. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html