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The words of Kohelethson of David, king in Jerusalem.
Utter futility!—said Koheleth—
Utter futility! All is futile!
What real value is there for a man
In all the gainshe makes beneath the sun?…
Places:
Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
Contributor:
Menachem Mendel Lefin
Places:
Satanów, Russian Empire (Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1808
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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
Contributor:
Solomon Mazal Tov
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Türkiye)
Date:
Mid-16th Century
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On the existence and nature of a great and awesome, holy world, which is situated beyond the equator, and whether it is possible that there is a settlement south of this equator, called zo…
Contributor:
Abraham Farissol
Places:
Ferrara, Papal States (Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
First Quarter of the 16th Century