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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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My heart overflows inside me [see Psalms 45:2]; my heart, my heart moans [see Jeremiah 4:19], racing back and forth [see Ezekiel 1:14]; I am astounded by a voice, a voice that calls to me, saying to…
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Moses Alsheikh
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1590
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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…
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Eleazar Azikri
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1584–1588
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O my soul’s beloved, merciful father, drag your servant to do your will!
Your…
Contributor:
Eleazar Azikri
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1584–1588
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“R. Isaac said, etc.” In Genesis Rabbah it says: “Even though there is not a single superfluous narrative in the Torah—not even ‘the sister of Lotan was Timna’”—for it says in Sanhedrin Chapter ḥelek…
Contributor:
Judah Loew
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1578
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One who uses the Ineffable Name in this world will have a great punishment, and the reason for this is that he mentions holy letters in impurity, and combines that which is holy with that which is…
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Moses Cordovero
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1549
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On the Messiah and his circumstances, whether or not he has come.
Contributor:
Sébastien Leclerc, Leone Modena
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1645
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I maintain that this megilah [scroll] is nothing other than a disputation of the people of the diaspora, those exiled in the bitter and impetuous [see Habakkuk 1:6] captivity of this host [see Obadiah…
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Moses Alsheikh
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1591
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Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth (Song of Songs 1:2).
These are the first spoken words of the student who yearns for the Torah, which is like the daughter of the king of kings with its…
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Solomon ha-Levi Alkabetz
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century