By Raphael Ventura, February 20, 2003 personal statement writers The sequence of grand rabbis that forms the stem of our tree is as follows: Menahem Bar Isaac Ashkenazi (=MENAHEM I) (1666-1734)* Mordehai Bekhmohar Menahem (=MORDEHAI I) (1695-1748) Menahem Bekhmohar Mordehai...
read moreBy Raphael Ventura help writing a essay for college It took some reading and much thinking to solve some of the problems involved in the name Behmoiras. The name is definitely unusual, to say the least. The Hebrew language uses several honorific designations for rabbis. One of...
read moreBy Raphael Ventura The early “history” of our family, as is frequently the case, has a nucleus of historical truth, couched in a layer of myth and legend. The legend that was woven around the personalities of our ancestral figures, Rabbi Isaac Ashkenazi and his son...
read moreWe have divided our family’s history into three parts: Our Ancient History Our Modern History Our History in between. The partition is not strictly chronological. Rather it reflects the nature of our data sources which are roughly of 3 types: The encyclopaedic information...
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