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The sages say, that at the time the Syrian-African Rift
occurred, the celestial inhabitants were not
up-to-date. Each man was engaged
at his trade. In grinding…
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Avot Yeshurun
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1973
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I am only this song that you place on my lips.
I am yours: yours my arms, yours my legs,
Yours my hands, yours my belly, my loins,
Yours my breasts, yours my teeth, yours my lips,
Yours my tongue…
Contributor:
André Chouraqui
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1960
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With every stone that was set in the new barn, another drop of life seemed to ebb from the wife of the randar or tavern keeper. When she looked out at the building, she often said that she would not…
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Leopold Kompert
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Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
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1848
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Today is the eighth day since the evil tidings came that the crown has fallen from our head (Lam. 5:16). It was my obligation to see that we should immediately have arranged a great memorial service…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prag, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1780
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When I heard that Isaac Kornfeld, a man of piety and brains, had hanged himself in the public park, I put a token in the subway stile and journeyed out to see the tree. [ . . . ]
[ . . . ] On the day…
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Cynthia Ozick
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1966
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[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
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David Attias
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Livorno, Holy Roman Empire (Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778
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Household of eight.
Beds are two.
When it gets late,
What do they do?
Three with father,
Three with mother:
Limbs
Over each other.
When it’s night
And they go to bed,
Mother begins
To wish she…
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Avrom Reisen
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1899
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Sky, have mercy on me!
If there be in you a God and to that God a path
and I have not found it—
you pray for me!
I—my heart’s dead and there’s no prayer left in my mouth
and no strength and no hope…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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Rise and go to the town of the killings and you’ll come to the yards
and with your eyes and your own hand feel the fence
and on the trees and on the stones and plaster of the walls
the congealed…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
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Kishinev, Russian Empire (Chisinau, Moldova)
Date:
1903
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And around us loomed the mountains, various heights, various shapes, squeezed together or clambering atop one another. Some were terrifying with their rugged lines, some were soft and delicate like a…
Contributor:
Hersh Dovid Nomberg
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1908