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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
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Międzyboż, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Medzhybizh, Ukraine)
Date:
1752
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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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Persian–Hellenistic Period, 6th–3rd Century BCE
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O most high and sovereign Creator of heaven and earth, not one of Your countless creatures can resist Your will. Without it neither men nor birds nor brutish beasts could live upon the earth. Unless…
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Luis de Carvajal
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(Nuevo León, Mexico)
Date:
1596
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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
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Rome, Papal States
(Rome, Italy)
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Early 16th Century
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In order that all the simple…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(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
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Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio
(Modena, Italy)
Date:
1626
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Book III: In which the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the dead are proved against the Sadducees. The causes of the miraculous resurrection are explained, and the final judgment and…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1636
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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…
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Moses Zacuto
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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Mid–17th Century