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Lo, a day of the Lord is coming when your spoil shall be divided in your very midst! For I will gather all the nations to Jerusalem for war: The city shall be captured, the houses plundered, and…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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David Aboab
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Curaçao, Dutch Colonial Empire
(Curaçao)
Date:
1745
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But when we live in houses of hewn stone…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Metz, Kingdom of France
(Metz, France)
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1744
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Human follies, silver and gold and possessions,
Last only shortly on earth, and like flies, they fly away.
Wealth flowers like abundant grain, or like a tree’s boughs,
It bears recognizable fruit…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
(Modena, Italy)
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1626
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This period of time is marked by four phenomena. Three of them concern everyone, and one concerns religious youth specifically.
1. Despair…
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Moshe Zvi Neriah
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1939
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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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Artist Unknown
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Late 17th Century
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Paul Christian Kirchner
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Nuremberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Nuremberg, Germany)
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1724
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And so let it be known to your Excellency what happened to the letter that your Excellency sent me with the etrogs [citrons]. The letter was not handed to me until the [week of the] Sabbath of Vayetze…
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Asenath Barazani
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Mosul, Ottoman Empire
(Mosul, Iraq)
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Early 17th Century
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Israel David Luzzatto
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Trieste, Habsburg Empire
(Trieste, Italy)
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ca. 1775