The files allow us to reconstruct, almost entirely, the Jewish calendar kept in secret in 17th-century Palma. The street had its own names for it: «the fast of Queen Esther» was Purim; «the Pasch», Passover; «the fast of forgiveness» or «great fast», Yom Kippur.
One witness summed it up: all these people held the Law of Moses to be good and holy for salvation, and kept the fasts of Queen Esther, of Passover and of forgiveness.
And he described the gesture that closed the most important day of the year. When the last fast ended, the younger ones went to the homes of their older relatives, «kissed their hands and asked their forgiveness». And the elders answered: «May God forgive you».
It is the heart of Yom Kippur, reconciliation between generations, preserved for more than two hundred years after the forced conversion. Without rabbis, without books, without a synagogue. And recorded, like everything else, by the tribunal that persecuted it.
