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What is the place of the idolatry that is reflected in the Bible?
This idolatry is not a representation perverted for the sake of polemic; nor is it an artificial…
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Yehezkel Kaufmann
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Jerusalem, Israel
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1951
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Our state is young, with a girl’s years, just fourteen. Still without her shoes, as the poet says. But she seems old, many generations old. In these few years, old age has pounced on her. No one is…
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Chaim Hazaz
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1962
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Jewish mysticism in its various forms represents an attempt to interpret the religious values of Judaism in terms of mystical values. It concentrates upon the idea of the living God who manifests…
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Gershom Scholem
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1941
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Remove your shoes from your feet and, barefoot, feel the earth!
Whatever was in the past and be what may now—today the land is ours, the heavens are ours, and the sea is our sea.
Let us go out to the…
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Gershom Shofman
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1949
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The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t…
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Shulamit Kalugai
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1941
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Siona Shimshi
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1955–1965
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The sea
tore a rib from its side
and said:
Go! Lie down there, be
a sign that I
am great and mighty.
Go
be a sign.
The canal
lies at my window,
speechless.
What can be sadder
than water
without…
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Malka Heifetz Tussman
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1965
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Three forces are wrestling now in our camp. The battle between them is especially discernible in Erets Yisrael, but their effect draws from the life of the nation at large, and their roots are…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Ottoman Palestine (Israel, Israel)
Date:
1914
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Moses went and repeated to the people all the commands of the Lord and all the rules; and all the people answered with one voice, saying, “All the things that the Lord has commanded we will do!” Mos…
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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
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
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16th Century