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The rabbi Nefret Yehudá is reading the Aramaic nonstop.
I have arrived at his temple, next to the devastation, as if to a mountain of salvation.
Only here have I been able to sleep. Nefret has been…
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Marcelo Birmajer
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1997
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I had a vision in Salonika, as though the following words were said to somebody: Go lead Yakov the wise into the rooms and when you and he come to the first room, I admonish you that all the doors and…
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Jacob Frank
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ca. 1760
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For do not interpretations belong to God? There are many kinds of dreams in the world: dreams that are mostly true and close to prophecy, but the sages said that there are no dreams without…
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Raphael Mordechai Malki
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Last Quarter of the 17th Century
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I sometimes dream that I’m a prisoner. For days, years. I’m only free at night, for a few hours toward morning. During those hours I can walk around. But I don’t know where to go. All the people I…
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Barbara Honigmann
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1996
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Seven continents, seven seas,
and two and forty years—
and torrid equatorial nights
filled with nightmare fears.
Open eyes, naked heart.
And draining blood from me,
mosquitoes buzzing, buzzing…
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Melekh Ravitch
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1935
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Formations of soldiers faced each other across the floor, taking cover in domino houses and bunkers of colored blocks. Yurik and Kazik lay by their soldiers. [ . . . ]
But Kazik had stopped playing…
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Uri Orlev
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1958
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Once, at night, after the seven days of mourning, while I lay on the sacks dozing, someone came to me, the Evil One himself, and said to me, “Gimpl, why are you sleeping?”
“What should I be doing,” I…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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Early in the morning the sun took a walk in the woods
with me and my father
my right hand in his left.
A knife flashed between the trees like lightning.
And I’m so scared of the fear in my eyes…
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Amir Gilboa
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1953
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You will assuredly regard it as wondrous, and it will gladden your heart that I too regarded as wondrous the vision vouchsafed to me by the Almighty in relation to the aliyot “ascents”—wondrous things…
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Ba‘al Shem Tov
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Międzyboż, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Medzhybizh, Ukraine)
Date:
1752
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Arthur Tress
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New York, United States of America
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1974