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These are the generations of Isaac ben ḥayim ben Abraham: Abraham begot Isaac (Genesis 25:19) ben Joseph among the kohanim who trace their family back to Pinehas, son of Eliezer, son of Aaron the…
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Isaac ben Ḥayim ha-Kohen
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
First Half of the 16th Century
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Nothing else makes me really rage
as when a poor man does something [wrong]
he is lost here and there
everyone would happily drink his blood.
But what the rich do here
is always all right
people let…
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Elye Bokher
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1513
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As if you could draw a line and say: below this there’s poverty.
Here’s the bread that turned black in the colorations
Of cheap makeup
And the olives in their little plate
Atop the cloth over the…
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Ronny Someck
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1996
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I slept with a murderer every night of my life for two years. The murderer is dead now. He died some weeks ago in Chicago. That is why I am free to tell the tale.
I was a small boy at that time. I…
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Louis Golding
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Manchester, United Kingdom
Date:
1938
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My day—
Is punctured like a sieve,
And ridiculed like a whim.
May winter whiteness blossom,
May autumns turn gray,
May summers whistle—
Become nightingales.
When a rye-wind
Would have twisted my…
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Kadya Molodovsky
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1935
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He remembers well how for the first time in his life he tried to cross the big street in Baghdad. With one hand his mother held onto him and with the other she held her long and wide cape, looked…
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Shalom Darwish
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Baghdad, Iraq
Date:
1948
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[A room in early evening shadows. It is the room of a New York suburban working girl.]
[Time: The early Thirties. A bell strikes eight times, probably from the bell tower of a nearby church. Rosie is…
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Elisa Lerner
Date:
1964
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Devekut requires that there be no impediment between man and God; only then is devekut possible. As in the parable of the Besht, it is impossible to join silver coins together…
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Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire
(Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1814
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Mel: I’m not having an anxiety attack. I’m a little tense.
Edna:Why don’t you take a Valium?
Mel: I took one.
Edna:Then take another one.
Mel: I took another one. They don’t work any more. [He…
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Neil Simon
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1970
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In the year 5473 [1713] since the creation of, the world, from the moment it began the plague fell upon us because of our many sins. In the community we still had no one ill nor bad air in the country…
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Moses Eisenstadt
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1713