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His two months, namely, ingathering; his two months, namely, seed (or: sowing); his two months, namely, late sowing; his month, namely, flax-cutting; his month, namely, barley harvest; his month…
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Gezer, Land of Israel
(Tel Gezer, Israel)
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10th Century BCE
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This drawing and the following replica of a pillared house are composites of many excavated houses from the Iron Age, 1200 to 586 BCE; none has been discovered standing. The images show domestic…
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Iron Age, 12th–6th century BCE
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Upon your nakedness a white day celebrates,
You who are [so] poor and so rich,
A wall of mountains has frozen,
Transparent like a deceptive vision,
Attached to the horizon.
Noon. The vastnesses of…
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Esther Raab
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1923
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I have not sung to you, my land,
And I have not glorified your name
With acts of valor,
With booty of battles;
My hands have planted just a tree
On the quiet Jordan shores,
My legs have trodden down…
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Rakhel (Rachel Bluwstein)
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Kevutsat Degania, Mandate Palestine
(Deganya Alef, Israel)
Date:
1926
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May my lord, the governor/commander, listen to the word of his servant! As for your servant, your servant was harvesting in Hatsar-asam. And your servant harvested and finished/measured and stored it…
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Meṣad Hashavyahu, Land of Israel
(Yavneh, Israel)
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Late 7th Century BCE
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The Sharon Valley was full of mud. Wherever we looked all we saw was mud. Fields, green trees and little houses, and great expanses of dark mud. The water from the rains which had fallen over the past…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Petah Tikva, Israel
Date:
1980
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Yosef Zaritsky
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1951
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We resist the penetration of capitalism and mercantilism into Palestine. How can we at this moment in history reconcile that with our conscience? Dare we burden this Zionist…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
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1919
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The word of the Lord that came to Joel son of Pethuel.
Listen to this, O elders,
Give ear, all inhabitants of the land.
Has the like of this happened in your days
Or in the days of…
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Question 30: From Gaza: may our master teach us whether the inhabitants of Gaza are obligated to separate terumot and tithes, as there are a few people who own land. In general, the question is…
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David Ibn Abi Zimra
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
Mid–16th Century