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Daniel’s Prayer upon Learning the Secret of Nebuchadnezzar’s Dream
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The mystery was revealed to Daniel in a night vision; then Daniel blessed the God of Heaven. Daniel spoke up and said: “Let the name of God be blessed forever and ever, For wisdom and power are…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE

Subjects:

Prayer & liturgy, Monarchy, Wisdom, Dreams, Monotheism

Categories:

Poetry, Prayer & Liturgy, Biblical poetry
Igeret aliyat ha-neshamah (Epistle on the Ascent of the Soul)
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You will assuredly regard it as wondrous, and it will gladden your heart that I too regarded as wondrous the vision vouchsafed to me by the Almighty in relation to the aliyot “ascents”—wondrous things…

Contributor:

Ba‘al Shem Tov

Places:

Międzyboż, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Medzhybizh, Ukraine)

Date:

1752

Subjects:

Mysticism, Hasidism, Afterlife, Dreams

Categories:

Mystical Texts
Commentary: On the Pentateuch
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1): In that part of the land of Canaan where his father had lived, similar to the verse: [To Mamre, to Kiryat…

Contributor:

Ovadiah Sforno

Places:

Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)

Date:

Before 1550

Subjects:

Bible, Theology, Family, Dreams, Exile

Categories:

Biblical commentary