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To the wheel that turns the river’s waters
And brings them upward from the flowing deep,
I sing this song, a song to banish sorrow.
For all who love and cherish and desire
The ways of poetry and…
This is a short compendium of the sheḥitot [rules for kosher slaughter] taken from Rabbenu Moshe [Maimonides] and Rabbenu Ya‘akob [Jacob ben Asher], without any errors about what is required, and with…
And it happened that one day, the sons of Jacob went to graze their sheep in Shechem, for they still grazed in Shechem in those days. And when the sons of Jacob were grazing their flock in Shechem…
A song I engraved on the tombstone (matzevet) of my master, my father, may he be remembered for the life of the world to come. The holy seed shall be its stock (matzavtah; Isaiah 6:13), is it not the…
R. Isaac ben Abraham ben Judah ‘Akrish, may he rest in peace, from exile in Spain and Naples, said that he would not receive the proud waters [of baptism; see Psalms 124:5], and was driven out…
[Hebrew:] We the undersigned, when the honorable old lady, Sra. Blanca, widow of R. Daniel Yeshurun (may his…
Ladies and Gentlemen:
The word “feminism” is interpreted in different ways. Some would grant [women] exaggerated rights. Others limit their demands to their simplest form without arriving at a proper…
Our periodical [Mir’ât] was established to exist in a space of freedom as far away as possible from the recorded language of formality. Deficiencies in style and form will…
Did you go to a meldar as a child? Have any of you been so lucky and blessed? I am sure that, seeing these two questions, you will all object that you had no idea what a meldar was and that you went…
The city of Urfa, located between Palestine and Karaman, was the site of a very well-organized and previously planned massacre.
On the past August 18…