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And if anyone of the house of Israel or of the strangers who reside among them partakes of any blood, I will set My face against the person who partakes of the blood, and I will cut him off from…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Gen. 1:11: Tree of fruit producing fruit for its kind—Every tree is called a “tree of fruit,” and they all produce fruit, some for food and some for healing. As for the phrase, “producing fruit for…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Lublin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1602
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Once, at night, after the seven days of mourning, while I lay on the sacks dozing, someone came to me, the Evil One himself, and said to me, “Gimpl, why are you sleeping?”
“What should I be doing,” I…
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Isaac Bashevis Singer
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New York, United States of America
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1945
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This page from a birkon (Grace after Meals) is an example of the work of Aaron Wolf Herlingen (Aaron Schreiber), a prominent eighteenth-century scribe and artist known for his illustrated Grace after…
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Aaron Wolff Herlingen of Gewitsch
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1724
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These letters of mine may be presented by the witnesses of the Lord, and they will be vindicated—to the effect that the young and delightful young man Daniel, whose utterances were genuine, appeared…
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Samuel Mendes de Sola
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Dutch Colonial Empire (Curaçao)
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1757
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Blessing Before the Meal
Let us bless the source of life
that brings forth bread from the earth.
N’vareykh et eyn haḥayim
hamotzi’ah léḥem min ha’áretz.
Sh’ma: Communal Declaration of Faith
Hear…
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Marcia Falk
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1996
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When Rabbi Zusya went to suffer the exile in Germany, he came to a city of Reform Jews. When they saw his ways, they mocked him and thought he was crazy. When he came into the synagogue, some of them…
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Elimelech of Lizhensk, Zusya of Annopol (Hanipoli)
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Hannopil’, Russian Empire (Hannopil', Ukraine)
Date:
1902