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The Book of Jerusalem Journeys
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In 1930, Chaim Elazar Shapiro (Spira), the Hasidic rebbe of Munkacs, Czechoslovakia (today, Mukachevo, Ukraine), traveled by rail to Vienna and Trieste and by ship to Alexandria, where he and his…

Contributor:

Moshe Goldstein

Places:

Mandate Palestine (Israel, Israel)

Date:

1930

Subjects:

Lag b’Omer, Mourning, Rabbis, Zionism, Violence

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Travel Writing, Memoirs & Diaries
Though one God created us: For Lag b’Omer
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This poem says that wellbeing [shalom] is ours, since we have God as our king, and we have the Torah, whose paths are wellbeing, even though we have acted wrongly and have been trapped by bad hatred…

Contributor:

Joseph Yedidya Carmi

Places:

Modena, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Modena, Italy)

Date:

1626

Subjects:

Holidays, Lag b’Omer, Covenant, Passover, Repentance

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy