Your light is sweet
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This poem, included in Eleazar Azikri’s Sefer ḥaredim, is signed in the acrostic with his name: “Azikri.”
Notes
[Psalms 79:9; the word kavod, “glory,” often serves in biblical Hebrew to express a concept similar to that of shekhinah in talmudic literature.—Trans.]
[Literally “my unique thing,” an epithet for the soul in Psalms 22:21.—Trans.]
[My inclination to do evil.—Trans.]
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Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 5.
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