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Reference number: 
B 2026 - 1
Obverse: 
B 2026 - 2
Image Number: 
JRL0802654dc
Image Title: 
Ethical text
Subject: 
Ethics
Subject: 
Sermons
Date created: 
18th-19th century
Language: 
Hebrew
Script: 
Hebrew
Support material: 
Paper
Item height: 
179 mm
Item width: 
112 mm
Folio: 
1 / 1 leaf, recto
Technique used: 
Handwriting
Notes: 
17 lines. On the evil inclination (yetser ha-ra). The first paragraph consists of a homiletic interpretation of Genesis 18.5, quoting Hayyim Joseph David Azulai (1724-1806) on lines 2-3. Quotations: Genesis 18.5 (lines 1-2), Exodus 15.20 (line 3), Proverbs 9.5 (line 5), Talmud Bavli - Kiddushin 30b (lines 6, 9, 14, 16), Proverbs 25.21 (line 12), Talmud Bavli - Sukkah 52b (line 13).
Discovery site: 
Egypt: Cairo: Ben Ezra synagogue
Current repository: 
The University of Manchester Library, U.K.
Former repository: 
Moses Gaster
Category of Material: 
Manuscripts
Sub-Category: 
Fragments
Image rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Work rights: 
The University of Manchester Library
Access rights: 
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
Image sequence number: 
B02026-1
Image technique: 
Digital capture by Gten
Date image captured: 
2007-11-28
Date: added: 
2008-07
Metadata language: 
eng-GB