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This Sabbath hymn, Lekhah dodi (“Come, my beloved”), is now a prominent part of the Kabbalat Shabbat (Welcoming the Sabbath) evening service, first instituted in the sixteenth century. It has been…
Contributor:
Abraham Farissol, Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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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…
Contributor:
Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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August is flat and still, with ever-thickening green
Leaves, clipped in their richness; hoarse sighs in
the grass,
Moments of mowing, mark out the
lengthening summer. The ground
We children…
Contributor:
John Hollander
Places:
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1965
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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
Contributor:
Israel Najara
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Early 17th Century