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You asked how an object can move without being touched, and this indeed is a puzzling matter to all sages. To explain this issue, I must first discuss some rudiments of the science of music, for if…
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Joseph Solomon Delmedigo
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1629
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Goldman plodded through the sand and passed the place where the big shack, which had disappeared without a trace, had once stood, skirted the wild mulberry tree and arrived at the place which had once…
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Yaakov Shabtai
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1977
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Belonging to Gedalyahu “who is over the House.”
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Lachish, Land of Israel (Tel Lakhish, Israel)
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6th Century BCE
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Belonging to Hizkiyahu (Hezekiah), (son of) Ahaz, king of Judah.
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Jerusalem, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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7th Century BCE
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At the end, after the thermonuclear war between the Djanks and Druzhkies, in consequence of which they had destroyed themselves, and, madly, all other inhabitants of the earth, God spoke through a…
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Bernard Malamud
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New York, United States of America
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1982
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Mom was taken away, I don’t know exactly where. Dad says she is in a nice place where they take good care of her. I miss her…although I understand. Dad says she suffered from a sickening love for…
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Alcina Lubitch Domecq
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1984
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Oded talked about the team, about the next day’s game. Surprised at Micky’s indifference, he suddenly stopped and looked at him closely. There was an insulted expression on his face, as if Micky had…
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Yehoshua Kenaz
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Petaẖ Tiqva, Israel
Date:
1986
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There was no doubt of it, the dark coat on the rack could mean only one thing: a guest had arrived, an unusual guest at that, because the coat was stern-looking, grim, quite unlike the coat that…
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Péter Nádas
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Budapest, Hungary
Date:
1986
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The summer I was fifteen years old—just before my senior year in high school, for I had skipped grades—a new thing under the sun appeared in Brooklyn. Contact lenses. My parents made inquiries…
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Lynne Sharon Schwartz
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1989
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—I quite agree, sir. It was done a bit cavalierly and without a proper security check, because he had become known to everyone throughout the autumn months of the advance on Jerusalem. Which is why it…
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A. B. Yehoshua
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Haifa, Israel
Date:
1990