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This is the line of Esau—that is, Edom.
Esau took his wives from among the Canaanite women—Adah daughter of Elon the Hittite, and Ohol-ibamah daughter of Anah daughter of Zibeon the Hiv-ite—and…
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In the Sephardic tradition, a “marriage contract” (ketubah), a symbolic betrothal of God and Israel, is read before the Torah reading on the first day of the holiday of Shavuot
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Israel Najara
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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Early 17th Century
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They present me with the bill
For not having been satisfied,
And they always surprise me with the wealth of their lexicon.
They ask me for a receipt for my fate,
And they make me think,
That…
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Nurit Zarchi
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2001
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[Leidental’Sroom. Evening. Leidental. One of his fingers is bandaged.]
Leidental:[To himself.] At eight fifteen I felt I cannot any more with myself. I had: regulation misery, pain to top…
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Hanoch Levin
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1972
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A month later, when a young man, about eighteen years old, Mulla Ovadia’s nephew, came to his father’s property and saw all that his uncle had done in it, he was told that his uncle had a wife in…
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Yehudah Burla
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1913
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From the corner of his eye, Rabbi Elbaz now observed the anxiety in Ben Attar’s face receding somewhat, and a short row of white teeth gleaming in the smile of a merchant who finally sees the hope of…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Haifa, Israel
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1998
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On a night like this if a shudder were to shake your flesh as though a nightmare
had severed your sleep I could have risen and quietly walked to the kitchen
to write you a poem that would bring you…
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Yitzhak Laor
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1982
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Ruthka [checks the pile of clothes lying on the table]:You’ve given him enough clothes to last him for a year.
Gita:When one of our members goes away for a while, I don’t want…
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Moshe Shamir
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1948
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No sooner had he laid his head on the pillow that he was fast asleep. His insomnia of the night before, his great fatigue on the sailing date, and the ship’s swaying in the waves—all combined to…
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Amnon Shamosh
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Kibbutz Ma‘ayan Barukh, Israel
Date:
1972
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It is said: A thread of grace is spun and drawn out of the deeds of Israel, and the Holy One, blessed be He, Himself, in His glory, sits and weaves—strand on strand—a tallit all grace and all mercy…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
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1908