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The Wisdom in the Hebrew Alphabet
Michael L. Munk
1983
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Born in Berlin, Michael L. Munk studied at the Slobodka Yeshiva and received a doctorate from the University of Wurzburg. Munk fled to England in 1938 and settled in Boston in 1941. He later worked at Beth Jacob school in Boro Park, Brooklyn, and subsequently was involved with promoting the humaneness of kosher slaughtering. Munk was fascinated with the symbolism of the Hebrew alphabet. He moved to Israel after his retirement.
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The Book of Leviticus is not terribly popular among American Jews of my acquaintance. […] Leviticus seems so repetitive, so anachronistic. […] [The] book is in many…
Already (Lord) with humility,
fearing my perdition,
in a sea of contrition
I seek port in Thy pity.
Against Thy immense goodness
I sinned. My sorrow warns me,
that of the error of Thy offending
my…