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We recite the blessing “Who performed miracles for our forefathers, etc.” on Hanukkah and Purim, but we do not do so on Passover, even though the Exodus…
Contributor:
Levi Isaac of Berdichev
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Slavuta, Russian Empire
(Slavuta, Ukraine)
Date:
1798
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Look from the top of Amana (Song of Songs 4:8) and [see the type of] negotiation carried out faithfully [emunah]:
1. Be diligent in your transactions, to ensure that they are…
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Abraham ha-Levi Horowitz
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(Lviv, Ukraine)
Date:
Beginning of the 17th Century
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My beloved wife Esther Sheindel, may you live long, since we, on account of our affection, once made a pact, as it were, that if one of us dies, the other should implore God’s mercy for the other to…
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Johann Conrad Weiss, Naphtali ha-Kohen Katz
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ca. 1718
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This is a night of vigil for me,
in the shudder of my soul
I shall conceal
the secret of my youth.
I shall stand on guard:
No sleep nor slumber!
And in just one moment
the veil was taken away.
A…
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Bat-Hamah
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1954
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In our first series of discussions, we explored the struggle between the government and the Jews, which was initiated by the former and ended with its triumph over the latter; in the second…
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Mikhail Morgulis
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ca. 1863
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“Hey, hey, out of my way!” shouted a driver from the seat of his coach as he nearly ran into two women standing in the middle of the busiest street in Glupsk, both carrying…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Žitómir, Russian Empire
(Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1878
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Bruno Schulz
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Drohobych, Second Polish Republic
(Drohobych, Ukraine)
Date:
1920
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Hey, women, spotted with typhus and riddled with rakes of fingers
Across autumn heads of woe,
Are you fruitful? Do you multiply? How many times each?
In whorehouses? On floors?
In the stable? In…
Contributor:
Peretz Markish
Places:
Kyiv, Russian SFSR
(Kyiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1920