Legal document: ENA NS 3.22

Legal document ENA NS 3.22

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ENA NS 3.22
Primary Language
Hebrew

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Ketubba, once monumental, now just a piece of it. What remains are two perpendicular lines on the right hand side of the text containing blessings. Ed. Friedman, JMP, #64 who dates the ketubba to 1089-1099 and locates it in Tyre.

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Jewish Theological Seminary Library
Historical shelfmarks
ENA NS 3, f. 22; ENA NS 3, fol. 22
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In PGP since 1989
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Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza Study (Tel Aviv University, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, 1980), vol. 2 (The Ketubba Texts).

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  1. קומי אורי כי בא אורך וכבוד י/י\י עליך זרח כי הנה החושך יכסה ארץ וערפל לאומים ועליך יזרח י/י\י וכבודו עליך יראה והלכו גויים ומלכים לנוגה זרחך כי נר מצוה ות[ורה ...]
  2. אל תשמחי אויבתי לי כי נפלתי קמתי כי אשב בחושך י/י\י אור לי לדויד י/י\ אורי וישעי ממי אורי וישעי ממי (!) אירא י/י\י מעוז חיי ממי אפח[ד...]

top margin

  1. [...]ל ... שת לעולם [...]

main text

  1. ביום ח[מישי ...]
  2. כב ג[ד ... במהרה]
  3. וכתו[בתה ...]
  4. ורע[ותיה ...]
  5. ברתי[ה ...]
  6. בכל מ[ה ...]
  7. סת אל[...]
  8. דעכו[...]
  9. מחוג [...]
  10. מנהון ע[שר ...]
  11. בתמא[נ]ן [...]
  12. בשבעה .[...]
Mordechai Akiva Friedman, Jewish Marriage in Palestine: A Cairo Geniza Study (Tel Aviv University, Chaim Rosenberg School of Jewish Studies, 1980), vol. 2 (The Ketubba Texts).

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  1. Rise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord, has shone upon you. For darkness shall cover the earth and gross darkness the peoples; but upon you the Lord will shine, and His glory shall be seen upon you. And nations shall walk by your light, and  kings by the brightness of your shine. For the commandment is a lamp and [the Torah a light. ...]  
  2. Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord is light unto me. [A Psalm] of David. The Lord is my light and  my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afrai[d? ...]

top margin

  1. ... for ever ... 

text

  1. On the f[ifth] day [...]
  2. hon(or), g[r(eatness) ... as her mohar]  
  3. and ketu[bb a ... ]  
  4. and [his] desi[re ...]  
  5. [hi]s daughter [...]  
  6. to all th[at ...]  
  7. Sitt Al[...]  
  8. Of Akko(?) [...]  
  9. ...  
  10. of them t[en ...]  
  11. for eigh[t]y [...]  
  12. for seven [...] 

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