The Year of Abundance

Moshe Stavi

1930

God relented. And the whispered prayers of the toiler returned not empty, and the tears of the sower reached to heaven.

With great, with manifold mercy the windows of heaven were flung open, flung wide by a generous hand to abundance and rich blessing.

At the beginning of Cheshvan the rains began to fall, beautiful in their order and pleasant in…

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Moshe Stavi

1884–1964

Born Moshe Stavsky in Antopol, Russia, Stavi originally wrote in Yiddish. In 1907, he moved to Warsaw and gradually started writing in Hebrew. There he married the Yiddish poet Anna Margolin, but they later divorced. In 1911, he moved to Palestine and worked variously as a clerk, a dairy herder, a guard, a farmer, and a labor union official. He was one of the few Hebrew writers of the period whose stories featured Arab characters.

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