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O God, You have taught me from my youth: and until now I declare Your wondrous deeds (Psalms 71:17)
O God, You are my God; earnestly I seek You: my soul thirsts for You. (Psalms 63:2)
When…
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Menaḥem Azariah da Fano
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Fano, Papal States
(Fano, Italy)
Date:
First Half of the 17th Century
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And the sages have stated, in regard to the reward of those who serve the Almighty and carry out His will in this world, in Song of Songs Rabbah 6:8: Anyone who occupies himself with the Torah in this…
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Aaron Berekhiah of Modena
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
(Modena, Italy)
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1626
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Sad is the man who forgets God
without waking from the dream of his error,
and of the evil that awaits him is never aware
until his sin of his death is the cause.
In his obstinate and…
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Aron de Chavez, Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1665
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And it came to pass, when they gathered to go, joyous in their departure and glad to run the course, the great God raised His voice, and the sound of thunder swiftly turned silent. All gave ear to the…
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Solomon de Oliveyra
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1665
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Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the roof; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick .…
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Abraham Bukrat
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Early 16th Century
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The teaching of the Lord is perfect,
renewing life;
the decrees of the Lord are enduring,
making the simple wise;
The precepts of the Lord are just,
rejoicing the heart;
the instruction of the Lord…
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Every day, I ask all those that pass by the shepherd’s tents,
What is all this, why is all this?
Has my beloved had a change of heart, and abandoned his flock forever,
And rejected them, and…
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Judah Alkaletz
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Algiers, Ottoman Empire
(Algiers, Algeria)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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As on this month’s last day,
the moon is waning,
make my sins wane, O Lord,
my merits flourish.
I know my heart is hard—
a wicked web whose threads are sin—
and I deserve the fire
for weaving wrong…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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17th Century
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At the time when the florid season,
joyful springtime of life,
the tender infancy of its ardent age,
made its first step in the Orient
placing flower before Aprils
to my first juvenile…
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Diego Basurto Henríquez
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Rouen, Kingdom of France
(Rouen, France)
Date:
1649
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Three donkeys from Beersheba, so they say,
Plodded slowly down the road to Dan one day.
One brown, one black, one white, they went their way.
The three passed by a minaret, and there
The black one…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1939