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Map of the Land of Israel
Solomon Adeni
ca. 1611
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Solomon Adeni (also known as Shelomo bar Yehoshua) was a Yemenite Jewish writer and talmudist. When he was four years old his family moved to Palestine. He lived in Safed and Jerusalem and eventually settled in Hebron. Poverty stricken, he worked on his commentary on the Mishnah, Melekhet Shelomoh (The Work of Solomon) for thirty years. Though it was not published until the end of the nineteenth century, Melekhet Shelomo is included today in many standard editions of the Mishnah.
A crocodile cloud swallowed a cloud-cloud.
All is clogged
and where did the war go?
The pier is painted red and yellow
with the inscription: Tel Aviv.
The drums of the depths are indifferent.
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