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Your light is sweet and pleasing for my heart’s joy and gladness,
O my soul’s beloved, my full desire is that I never depart from your presence.
My plan, each day and night, is to find favor in the…
Contributor:
Eleazar Azikri
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1584–1588
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O Lord of everything, who seeks the nation that seeks you,
Do not separate yourself from us, and we will not separate from you—O Lord of everything!
For you, O…
Contributor:
Eleazar Azikri
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1584–1588
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In Midrash ḥazit [Midrash Rabbah Song of Songs] it is stated:
And besides that Koheleth was wise, he also taught the people knowledge; ye…
Contributor:
Isaac Vega
Places:
Nikopolis, Ottoman Empire
(Nikopol, Bulgaria)
Date:
1621
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The initial premise of our argument—and the matters of which we speak are of ancient provenance—is that love can be divided into three categories, which are: the love of something beneficial, the love…
Contributor:
Israel Najara
Places:
Damascus, Ottoman Empire
(Damascus, Syria)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century
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Human prayer that is properly intended is above, in the supernal depths, according to the secret of the point of Zion; and there is the secret place of the holy…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second half of the 16th Century