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A moon full of shimmering honey,
Exuding joy.
What bird beats in my heart?
Fly away—away, but not alone.
What am I shy? What?
Thick empyrean wine.
I’ll take a wicker bottle,
To the cemetery alone…
Contributor:
Elena Shvarts
Date:
1980
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The holy Balshemtov walked in the field
In the cold dawn went walking in the field
As winds were blowing from the north.
Bitter cold from the north.
His limbs started to freeze.
Once his limbs were…
Contributor:
Zishe Landau
Places:
New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1916
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What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…
Contributor:
Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1910–1918
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Grisha Bruskin
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1988
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I was privileged to visit Lublin with my late father when I was a boy of nine, and I saw his [the Seer’s] face illuminated like torches. And when he opened the door to recite Ke-gavnah [An Aramaic…
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Isaac Judah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno
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Komarno, Austrian Empire (Komarno, Ukraine)
Date:
1815
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This book consists of a descriptive account and twenty stories. The descriptive account speaks of the life of the Hasidim, a Jewish sect of eastern Europe which arose around the middle of…
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Martin Buber
Places:
Ravenna, German Empire (Germany)
Date:
1907
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A. Many great, wise, genius, and righteous men beseeched me to publish in a book that which I received from scribes and…
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Yisroel Berger
Places:
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania (Bucharest, Romania)
Date:
1909