Showing Results 1 - 10 of 32
Public Access
Text
A poem by King Hezekiah of Judah when he recovered from the illness he had suffered:
I had thought:
I must depart in the middle of my days;
I have been consigned to the gates of Sheol
For the rest…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
So appreciate your vigor in the days of your youth, before those days of sorrow come and those years arrive of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before sun and light and moon and…
Places:
Date:
Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Meat strengthens the body and provides it better nourishment than the other foods. Right after slaughtering it is very good and useful, but old meat is one of the causes of illness. The hard meat of…
Contributor:
David de Silva
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Greetings 53 year old Tristess, you must have guessed
back then, before youth and old men in fancy cars
turned their backs on you,
how all this would vanish, only Mitterand and the Citroën remain;
yo…
Contributor:
Natan Zach
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1988
Categories:
Public Access
Text
From Rose Kaplan, Nurse in Charge of District Visiting Nursing in Jerusalem, for the Hadassah Chapter, Daughters of Zion.
Miss Landy and I, nurses for the Daughters of Zion of America, send…
Contributor:
Rose Kaplan
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1914
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
For you have fallen because of your sin.
Take words with you
And return to the Lord.
Say to Him:
“Forgive all guilt
And accept what is good;
Instead of bulls…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A psalm of David. A song for the dedication of the House.
I extol You, O Lord,
for You have lifted me up,
and not let my enemies rejoice over me.
O Lord, my God,
I cried out to You,
and You…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Categories:
Public Access
Text
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…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
To exorcise any spirit or any demon from a person [is] a kabbalistic power [ma‘aseh merkavah] with which King Solomon, peace be upon him, ruled all the demons. Fast for three consecutive days—Monday…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
17th Century
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
Toward the end of the 1990s, a storm erupted among members of the Ethiopian community. They discovered that suspicions were being raised about the health of their blood, and that donations were…
Contributor:
Abraham Adegah
Places:
Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
2002