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The words of the perfect scholar, the divine kabbalist, R. Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz (may the memory of the righteous be for the life of the World-to-Come):
Know that the pious one and myself, his…
Contributor:
Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1530s
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
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Meir Berlin
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
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At the close of Independence Day 1972
a biplane plane rose
in the Tel-Aviv sky at dusk
and on its belly
moving lights flashed:
For health and pleasure eat plenty of poultry
Eat as you should…
Contributor:
Meir Wieseltier
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1973
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Jewish humor of recent generations, in all its manifestations—jokes, puns, witticisms, and anecdotes—has found patrons within Our Language [a Hebrew-language periodical] and already…
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Dov Sadan
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1949
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Come my beloved,
let us go into the open;
Let us lodge among the henna shrubs.
Let us go early to the vineyards;
Let us see if the vine has flowered,
If its blossoms have…
Contributor:
Aryeh Ben-Gurion
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1985
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Early in the morning he went out to carry out the assignment which he had been given. Jerusalem seemed to be tired and her hair was unkempt. The first revellers had reached the streets. One window was…
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Yehuda Amichai
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1961
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When spring is asleep it palely awakens
In fields of fire the final battle will cease
And a wonderful morning from valley to hillside
Will rise up in singing and in joy.
The sun will stand still…
Contributor:
Dudu Barak
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1971
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When the seventh month arrived—the Israelites being [settled] in their towns—the entire people assembled as one man in the square before the Water Gate, and they asked Ezra the scribe to bring the…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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Prepare the feast
of perfect faith,
the delight of the Holy King.
Prepare the feast of the King.
This is the feast
of the Field of Holy Apples;
the Lesser Presence and Ancient Eminence
asse…
Contributor:
Isaac Luria
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Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1565
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Citizens of Israel, today, at around 2 p.m., the armies of Egypt and Syria launched an attack against Israel. They carried out a series of attacks from the air, with armor and artillery, in Sinai and…
Contributor:
Golda Meir
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1973