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Hannah the blind woman was told before her wedding that her future husband was a widower in the tobacco business; at first they also assured her that this widower had been left with no…
Contributor:
Jacob Steinberg
Places:
Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1922
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
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Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century
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When [Isaac Luria] was sick, he blessed each companion with a suitable blessing for him, in accordance with the spark of his soul. R. ḥayim Vital was not there with them at the time of the blessing…
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Unknown
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1534–1572
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I was in the midst of a large group of people who were there, close to a hundred people, among them scholars and heads of communities. And two men, who knew adjurations and many things, approached the…
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Elijah Falkon
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
Date:
1571
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Just as King David combined his ability as warrior with his sacred liturgical activity, so nowadays physical exercise done to provide the Nation with strength and the spiritual exercises of the…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1904–1914
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Boys, honor the pregnant woman. Treat her carefully and care for her, for who knows the merit of the essence already formed in the womb?
The greatest individuals on earth, pillars of society, and…
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Ḥayim Zuta
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1908
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The Ḥaydakim [Bacteria] and Their Characteristics[ . . . ] There are grounds for thinking that, apart from the absence of alcoholism, there are also race factors among Jews that play a certain role…
Contributor:
Mordechai Borochov
Places:
Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine
(Israel, Israel)
Date:
1913
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A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah when he recovered from the illness he had suffered:
I had thought:
I must depart in the middle of my days;
I have been consigned to the gates of Sheol
For the rest…
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Biblical Period
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So appreciate your vigor in the days of your youth, before those days of sorrow come and those years arrive of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before sun and light and moon and…
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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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Meat strengthens the body and provides it better nourishment than the other foods. Right after slaughtering it is very good and useful, but old meat is one of the causes of illness. The hard meat of…
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David de Silva
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century