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The little lightning bolt of Yemen flashed, despite the overwhelming darkness,
Spurring on sheets of dewy rain to the joy of mankind,
The rivers of Paradise are streams, watering the roses and the…
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Shalem Shabazī
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Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
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Love for an honored woman illuminates my mind’s eye and my imagination,
While I praise her beauty, for she comforts me in my exile.
My soul is like a lone bird and each night she greets the face of…
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Shalem Shabazī
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Taiz, Qasimid State (Taiz, Yemen)
Date:
ca. 1679/80
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Hear my cry, O Lord,Treat Zion well, with favor, speedily.Have mercy, fight my battle for me,For they have turned Jerusalem into ruins.Long have I inhabited a foreign land,Afflicted with bloody…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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End of the 17th Century
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Like a wooer and a husbandI devote myself to your faithsince being a husband does not implya courtly surrender.Like a wooer I pursue your lovebecause I wish to meritthe privileges of a husbandthough I…
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Abraham Gómez Silveira
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
First Half of the 18th Century
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Son of fruitful Joseph, precious Ephraim,
child of joy, lush grove of magnificence,
you will exult and rejoice—for, with a vengeance,
the Just will arise over the House of the Barren
when the time…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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18th Century
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Ah, you are fair, my darling,
Ah, you are fair.
Your eyes are like doves
Behind your veil.
Your hair is like a flock of goats
Streaming down Mount Gilead.
Your teeth are like a flock of ewes
Climbi…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Hellenistic Period, 4th–2nd Century BCE
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With God’s help I set myself the aim,
And with God’s aid I hope to achieve the same.
The holy book of Psalms in Taytsh [Yiddish] to make known,
Hoping that all shall praise and extol God, blessed be…
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Royzl bas Joseph Levi
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Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1586
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Hallelujah.
Praise God in His sanctuary; praise Him in the sky, His stronghold.
Praise Him for His mighty acts; praise Him for His exceeding greatness.
Praise Him with blasts of the horn; praise…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Biblical Period
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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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Your eyebrow, dear, is like a charm
that draws to you life’s greatest joys.
Rounded like a bow, that brow,
or like a moon in half eclipse.
Your eye, beside it, is a pool,
all sparkle, like a…
Contributor:
Joseph Tsarfati
Places:
Rome, Papal States (Rome, Italy)
Date:
Early 16th Century