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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot
Contributor:
Israel Najara
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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The fire of joy in solitude
. . . And since in vain I have made this journey,
The ground giving way to my burning steps,
Let me embrace this ardor
In abstract revelry
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Henri Franck
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1912
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With his asses, male and female,
His woolly sheep and billy goats,
His oxen and his camels
Bearing wineskins on their backs,
With his wives and his handmaids,
His servants and his…
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Edmond Fleg
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1913
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It is a work that contains two hundred precious and wondrous stories, full of ethical [edification] and [inspiring] fear of the Lord, sweeter than honey, bringing joy to oppressed hearts and souls…
Contributor:
Yitsḥak Dov Ber ben Tsvi Hirsh
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1900
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At last the time has come. Amid the returning horde, I shall be once more separated from myself. The drama unfolds between the domed sky and the crazily calm sea. Order gorges itself on conquests: it…
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Claude Benady
Date:
1950
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August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green
Leaves, clipped in their richness; hoarse sighs in
the grass,
Moments of mowing, mark out the
lengthening summer. The ground
We children…
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John Hollander
Date:
1965
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First having read the book of myths,
and loaded the camera,
and checked the edge of the knife-blade,
I put on
the body-armor of black rubber
the absurd flippers
the grave and awkward mask.
I am…
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Adrienne Rich
Places:
Waltham, United States of America
Date:
1972
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Furthermore, with regard to a synagogue, one should be careful when leaving the synagogue not to leave with one’s back to the altar, where the Torah scroll is placed. Rather, one should face the holy…
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Elijah de Vidas
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1579
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On a turquoise sea sails a ship. A sharp-eyed gull flies around the mast, swooping down from time to time to see what is happening on the ship, in all its decks. The boat has three decks and a bridge…
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Lova Eliav
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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The people I love the best
jump into work head first
without dallying in the shallows
and swim off with sure strokes almost out of sight.
They seem to become natives of that element,
the black sleek…
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Marge Piercy
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1973