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On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang:
When locks go untrimmedin Israel,
When people dedicate themselves—
Bless the Lord!
Hear, O kings! Give ear, O potentates!
I will sing, will…
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On this day, 25th Adar, 5490:
- A ban, enforceable by excommunication, on producing…
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The Jewish Community of Jerusalem
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1730
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Having risen from behind the Judean hills late at night, the moon illuminated the Yemenite neighborhood and the nearby bushland; it played a magical game there between the trees. It hid behind them…
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Neḥamah Pukhachewsky
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Rishon Lezion, Ottoman Palestine
(Rishon LeZiyyon, Israel)
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1911
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The Israelites again did what was offensive to the Lord—Ehud now being dead. And the Lord surrendered them to King Jabin of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. His army commander was Sisera, whose base…
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My son, if you accept my words
And treasure up my commandments;
If you make your ear attentive to wisdom
And your mind open to discernment;
If you call to understanding
And cry aloud to…
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Belonging to Hannah (?) daughter of Azaryah.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Late 8th or Late 7th–Early 6th Century BCE
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Nazie’s whispers, farhiz, farhiz, before falling asleep had availed nothing—the laughing demons sneaked into Flora’s belly, pinched the baby’s bottom and pulled his ears. The sharp edge of the knife…
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Dorit Rabinyan
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1995
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Terra-cotta pillar figurines are found throughout the biblical territory of Judah and date to the eighth to seventh centuries BCE. Most were decorated with a white background layer and one or more…
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Lachish, Land of Israel
(Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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Iron Age IIB–IIC, 8th–7th Century BCE
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The Israelites again did what was offensive to the Lord, and the Lord delivered them into the hands of the Philistines for forty years.
There was a certain man from Zorah, of the stock…
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I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…
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Elijah Falkon
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1571