" How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven" (Hebrew), a broadside with several regulations for appropriate conduct in the synagogue, issued by the leaders of the community of Pisa.
Pisa, Italy 1822.
The broadside is headlined by the Hebrew verse (Genesis: 28:17): "How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of heaven"; additional in-text Hebrew words.
The regulations include a prohibition against idle talk during the prayer service and the reading of the Torah; prohibition against raising one’s voice more than the prayer leader’s; the obligation to attend the sermons; and more.
43 Cm. Good condition, folded, few small insignificant stains & creases.
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