Puerto, Francisco Jesus Maria de San Juan del: Patrimonio Seraphico de Tierra Santa. Madrid 1724, 25-31, 44-75, 250, 251, 287, 302, 334, 390, 420, 421, 495, 547-549, 570, 571. Schmid, Balthasar: … In das gantze Gelobt und Heilige Land… Zweymal aussgeführte Reis-Beischreibung. Ulm 1723, 279-770, 828-840. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
Neret: Voyage aux Lieux Saints. Les Actes des Apotres Modernes, Paris 1852, I 16-45. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
Enemann, Michael: Reise im Orient 1711-1712 (J. Schoeps). Tübigen 1952, 202, 203. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
The Muslim kadi of Jerusalem decrees that Jews must wear a tall turban, and forbids, them from crossing in front of an Arab from his right side. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
Rabbi Yehuda He’Hassid migrated from Poland. “He arrived in the country with a thousand Jews. They established themselves in Jerusalem near the Western Wall (and bought a holy enclosure) for a synagogue. Rabbi Gedalia, one of Rabbi Yehuda’s companions recorded at that time. ‘The enclosure had several buildings within it, about forty houses and also […]
Placing Notes Into Cracks of Western Wall The practice of placing prayer notes into the cracks and crevices of the Western Wall began over 300 years ago. The earliest account of this practice is recounted by the Munkatcher Rebbe and is recorded in Sefer Ta’amei Haminhagim U’mekorei Ha-dinim. The story involves Rabbi Chaim ibn Attar, […]
Egmont, Johann Aegidius van – Heymann, Johann Wilhelm: Voyages… through a part of Europe, Asia Minor and many of the Islands of the Archipelago, Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai etc… 2 vols. London 1758, I 305-326, 346-359, 371-393. Pietro Antonio di Venezia: Guida Fedele alla Santa Citta di Gerusalemme e descrittione di tutta Terra Santa… […]
(Beaugrand, Felix): Relation nouvelle et très fidelle du voyage de Terre Sainte… Paris 1754, 32-76, 111-124. Source: Nathan Schur. Jerusalem. In Pilgrims’ Accounts Thematic Bibliography
Rabbi Gedaliah of Semitizi, who went to Jerusalem in 1699, writes that scrolls of Law were brought to the Wall on occasions of public distress and calamity. Source: https://rubikuriel.wordpress.com/2013/09/16/the-western-wall/
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