Diary
In the month of Tevet of the same year I entered that school and began studying Greek with tremendous dedication. I repented of all my previous actions and habits, just as I had promised my father (of blessed memory) that I would. My desire to learn that language was immense, so much so that I turned night into day, sleeping only very little and…
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Correspondence from the United States, 1859–1861
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His Honor, the Great Sage and Sweet Singer of Israel,
Judah Leib Gordon, greetings!
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