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Kehunat Avraham (The Priesthood of Abraham): On Psalm 23
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If the Lord shepherds me in the wilderness,   I will find that my cup runs over for meWith vines, fig trees, and pomegranates;   There my soul will be satisfied and live.A Psalm…

Contributor:

Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen

Places:

Zante, Venice (Zakynthos, Greece)

Date:

Before 1719

Subjects:

Bible, Poetry, Theology, Wisdom

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Biblical Commentary, Poetry
Page of Hebrew text with portrait of man with curly hair in center of page, surrounded by round frame with Hebrew words inside it.
A fountain surges from my verse’s house
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A fountain surges from my verse’s house.    Its flowing waters quench the thirst of men— A fountain from the rock of perfect rhyme,    With waters cold to please the yearning man— A flow unending…

Contributor:

Sa‘adia Longo

Places:

Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

End of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Poetry, Poets, Wisdom, Ecology, Allegory

Categories:

Literature, Poetry, Popular Poetry