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January 8. Lecture by [Leo] Fantl on Goldhaupt, “he tosses the enemy like a barrel.”
Insecurity, dryness, tranquility, in these everything will pass.
What do I have in common with Jews? I have…
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Franz Kafka
Places:
Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
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
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Jaffa, Israel)
Date:
1908
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Here, dear reader, is a prayer for you that I composed to be recited on the first night—before your permitted intercourse, by virtue of the marriage canopy, wedding ceremony, and marriage contract…
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Pinḥas Barukh Monselice
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
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Second Half of the 17th Century
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From the hour of distress (Psalms 118:5) as if [emerging] from the suffocating darkness of troublesome nightmares, we woke up; from the expanse, the lights of dawn welcomed us . . .
Lights from…
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Simḥa Ben-Tsiyon
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1918
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Now we come to the clarification of the mishnah: “One may not expound upon forbidden sexual relations to three people”—and the Gemara explains that this is referring to the concealed aspects of…
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Eleazar Rokeaḥ
Places:
Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1740