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In order that all the simple…
Contributor:
Menasseh Ben Israel
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1651
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Human follies, silver and gold and possessions,
Last only shortly on earth, and like flies, they fly away.
Wealth flowers like abundant grain, or like a tree’s boughs,
It bears recognizable fruit…
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Joseph Yedidya Carmi
Places:
Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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What is this sound of tumult that I hear—
Roaring of the sea, not burbling of the brook
Like the roar of a lion or a tiger?
I am in great danger and do not know
If my time approaches when I must…
Contributor:
Moses Zacuto
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
Mid–17th Century
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So appreciate your vigor in the days of your youth, before those days of sorrow come and those years arrive of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before sun and light and moon and…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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Behold the Lord, my soul, look up to Him
Who made you, give Him worship due,
Lest you be lost when He be wroth with you—
For your sin, O wayward one, your grievous sin.
On wisdom’s wing, ascend to…
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Joseph Tsarfati
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
Early 16th Century
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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…
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Ba‘al Shem Tov
Places:
Międzyboż, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Medzhybizh, Ukraine)
Date:
1752