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Furthermore, with regard to a synagogue, one should be careful when leaving the synagogue not to leave with one’s back to the altar, where the Torah scroll is placed. Rather, one should face the holy…
Contributor:
Elijah de Vidas
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1579
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In a long poem written in 1960, when I was thirty-one years old, I described myself as “Split at the root, neither Gentile nor Jew, / Yankee nor Rebel.” I was still trying to have it both ways: to be…
Contributor:
Adrienne Rich
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1982