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Ezekiel ha-Kohen
Ezekiel ha-Kohen was active in the Near East, possibly in Egypt. Otherwise not much is known about his life. He is referred to in Arabic as al-Basïr (The Seeing), a euphemistic appellation sometimes given to one who is blind. His work survives in a manuscript from the Cairo Geniza containing several liturgical poems.
Content by Ezekiel ha-Kohen
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I said to the stones
I said to the stones distinctly, not in a
whisper: “Give me of your strength, so that I may feel again; for griefs have consumed me and made me lean. Is my strength the strength of stones? Is my fesh…