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How can I hew out a song when the hammer of my senses is coated with rust? How can I play the lute when my hand is ensnared in fetters of fear? For my heart has entered the gazelle’s paved [palace]…
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Judah Zarco
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1560
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O living and terrible God, replace my prison, this round pit, by a full moon and a goblet. Pray, turn the darkness of my hell into a shining light, and this dwelling-place of dusk into an orchard, a…
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Judah Zarco
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
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1560
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Wisdom rests quietly in a wise man (Proverbs 14:33); nothing which he purposes to do will be withheld from him [see Job 42:2]. I envisioned a man who was diligent in his labor, who was as bright as…
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Unknown
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Frankfurt- Oder, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)
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End of the 17th Century
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Reuben:You are right, for there is no way out of such dilemmas and they allow no subterfuge. However, returning to our topic, before I show you the true definition of this noun Nature, I must explain…
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David Nieto
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1702
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Sad is the man who forgets God
without waking from the dream of his error,
and of the evil that awaits him is never aware
until his sin of his death is the cause.
In his obstinate and…
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Aron de Chavez, Daniel Levi de Barrios
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1665
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On the ban pronounced at a gathering of some members of the community in the city of Constantinople, together with some town representatives, in the synagogue of the community of Constantinople. It…
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Blasio Ugolino, Giovanni Cattini, Elijah Mizraḥi
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
ca. 1500
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These hypocrites maliciously break all Ten Commandments. All they do is only for show. They pride themselves that they believe in the existence of God, may He be blessed, while in truth it is not so…
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Sebastian Münster, Meyer Schomberg
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London, Kingdom of Great Britain (London, United Kingdom)
Date:
1746
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Let us make, I pray thee, a little chamber on the roof; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick .…
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Abraham Bukrat
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Early 16th Century
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So, Mr. Blum?
So, Mr. Blau?
What’s with you, Mr. Blum?
What should be with me, Mr. Blau?
How should I know what’s with you, Mr. Blum? I’m asking you. May I not ask? Why are you staring so?
I’m staring…
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Karel Polácek
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Prague, Czechoslovak Republic (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1926
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On the beginning of the new rebbetzin’s life in Zhuzhikovka, the locals say:
She, the rebbetzin, was brought here a few years ago from some distant city in Poland.
There, in that city, the Polish one…
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Dvora Baron
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927