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Now that the cup of poison is broken, there is no way out but to drink the cup of sorrows. . . .
My affirmation of life demanded that I should dedicate all the powers…
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Ephraim Lisitzky
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New Orleans, United States of America
Date:
1949
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The Goal: To develop in our land a cadre of Jewish guards fit for this task.
The Means: 1. To organize the operating guards in the colonies.
2. To become acquainted with and to prepare in the colonies…
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Hashomer
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Kfar Tavor, Ottoman Palestine (Kfar Tavor, Israel)
Date:
1909
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Before we come to the determination of our tasks, we would like to pause for a while to consider the situation of the present moment. We are experiencing here in Palestine a relatively quiet…
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Yitzhak Ben-Zvi
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Jaffa, Ottoman Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1906
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Arad letter (Military Orders). The letter, from the latter days of the Judean monarchy, refers to sending reinforcements to a town in the Negev, “Lest Edom should enter there.” It illustrates the…
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Arad, Land of Israel (Tel ‘Arad, Israel)
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Biblical Period
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This is the text of the letter which the prophet Jeremiah sent from Jerusalem to the priests, the prophets, the rest of the elders of the exile community, and to all the people whom Nebuchadnezzar…
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Your servant, Hoshayahu, sent to inform my lord, Yaush: May YHWH cause my lord to hear tidings of peace and tidings of good. And now, open the ear of your servant concerning the letter which you sent…
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
Date:
586 BCE
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Behold, an agency was sent to me from the two groups of the yeshiva heads coming to judgment, in whose hand was a written deed, signed by fit and proper witnesses, that the widow, the aforesaid lady…
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Rebecca ha-Levi
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1730
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How goodly are the tents of Jacob, the dwelling-places of Israel (Numbers 24:5), the synagogues and study houses in Jerusalem, that from morning to evening and from midnight to morning are never…
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Unknown
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1628
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A yihud [magical-theurgic “unification”] that my teacher, of blessed memory, taught me to remove an evil spirit: [For] sometimes the soul of an evil person is yet unable to get into Gehinnom because…
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Ḥayim Vital
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
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Paris, Tuesday, May 25, 1926, half past three in the afternoon. The car in which I had suddenly found myself honked and barely managed to drive through the dense throng, with people…
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Sholem Schwartzbard
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Berchères La Maingot, French Third Republic (Berchères-la-Maingot, France)
Date:
1933