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Blessed are you, Bar Yohai,
you were anointed
by your brethren with the oil of joy:
Bar Yohai,
with the oil of a sacred share
you were anointed through holy measure,
sanctity’s bud you wore…
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Simeon Ibn Lavi
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Tripoli, Ottoman Empire (Tripoli, Lebanon)
Date:
16th Century
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Theology teaches us that when God the Eternal formed man He gave him an extra rib. This rib was destined for the formation of woman in order that this creature, who was to become the rich…
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Elissa Lisbonne
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Avignon, Second French Empire (Avignon, France)
Date:
1865
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Dedicated to my friend Ignacio Móntes de Oca.
Why, if summer strips the garden
Of flowers and verdant foliage,
Does Spring so generously restore
Lush greenery, soft flowers,
And brilliant color;
An…
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Salomón López Fonseca
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Coro, United States of Venezuela (Coro, Venezuela)
Date:
1877
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For there are seven abominations in their hearts to ensnare the souls of the innocent, and they abolish public study of the Torah, and they cast off the yoke of the Torah from their necks and from the…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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Vilna, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1772
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In 1827, Tsar Nicholas I issued a statute that effectively made Russian Jews liable to military service, as part of a policy that sought to transform the Jewish population into integrated subjects who…
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Artist Unknown
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Shkudy, Russian Empire (Skuodas, Lithuania)
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1864–1867
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Following his retirement, Hijman Binger created a daily prayer book, drawing its texts from well-known sources and illustrating the manuscript with the help of his children. Completed in 1820, the…
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Hijman (Ḥayim ben Mordecai), Marcus, and Anthonie Binger
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Amsterdam, United Kingdom of the Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1820
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[Vocabulary list in (from right to left) Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian, with notes in French and English]CavernAntreПещераהאֶהלעמעְרָָהTo missManquerНе пѳпадать,פערפעהלעןהחַטֲֵא(the aim) въ цвльפעהל…
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Israel Ḥayim Taviov
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Riga, Russian Empire (Riga, Latvia)
Date:
1896
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Chapter 19
When Süss returned to his prison cell, he found his uncle waiting for him. In tears he fell into the arms of the dignified old man and told him everything that had happened to him. Rabbi…
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Marcus Lehmann
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Mainz, German Empire (Mainz, Germany)
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1897
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To one who honors you, Lord, be just,
And may my sonorous work be blessed.
Dear lord, by your will be it wrought
That out of nothing comes a new Thought.
Let it be pure, proud, faithful…
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Catulle Mendès
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1900
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‘Arukh ha-shulḥan, oraḥ ḥayim § 75:7And now come and let us shout out against the licentiousness of our generation, on account of our many sins. For it has now been many years that the daughters of…
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‘Arukh Ha-shulḥan (Yeḥiel Mikhl Epstein)
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Novogrudok, Russian Empire (Navahrudak, Belarus)
Date:
1903