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Once there was a rabbi who had no children. Finally, he had an only son. He raised him and married him off. The son used to sit in an attic room and study in the manner of rich men and he always…
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Nachman of Bratslav
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Bratslav, Russian Empire (Bratslav, Ukraine)
Date:
1815
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On the beginning of the new rebbetzin’s life in Zhuzhikovka, the locals say:
She, the rebbetzin, was brought here a few years ago from some distant city in Poland.
There, in that city, the Polish one…
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Dvora Baron
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
Date:
1927
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It is often said that among the Gentiles there are men of noble lineage whose features and outward appearance show that nothing but the purest and most refined aristocratic blood…
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Yehudah Burla
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1933
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Thus I went to all the tsadikim and I heard what they say in secret, and I also took the letters that they or those who serve them sent to one another and they didn’t see, because by means of the…
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Joseph Perl
Places:
Vienna, Austrian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1819
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It is a work that contains two hundred precious and wondrous stories, full of ethical [edification] and [inspiring] fear of the Lord, sweeter than honey, bringing joy to oppressed hearts and souls…
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Yitsḥak Dov Ber ben Tsvi Hirsh
Places:
Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1900
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From the corner of his eye, Rabbi Elbaz now observed the anxiety in Ben Attar’s face receding somewhat, and a short row of white teeth gleaming in the smile of a merchant who finally sees the hope of…
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A. B. Yehoshua
Places:
Haifa, Israel
Date:
1998