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54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if there is some…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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Everyone on earth had the same language and the same words. And as they migrated from the east, they came upon a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there. They said to one another, “Come, let…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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From movies to civil-rights movements, the Exodus stands at the center of Western thought and culture. You will still be surprised by what is, and what isn’t, in the account.
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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Behold her blood flows in my blood,
Behold her voice within me sings—
Raḥel the herder of Laban’s sheep,
Raḥel—mother’s mother.
And so the house is too constricting for me
And the city—alien,
For…
Contributor:
Rakhel (Rachel Bluwstein)
Places:
Kevutsat Degania, Mandate Palestine (Deganya Alef, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Dress me, good mother, in a glorious robe of many colours, and at dawn lead me to [my] toil.
My land is wrapped in light as in a prayer shawl. The houses stand forth like frontlets; and the roads…
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Abraham Shlonsky
Places:
Haifa, Mandate Palestine (Haifa, Israel)
Date:
1927
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Like the golden bangles on the arms of a Bedouin woman, the hills of Gilboa bind their bracelets about the valley of Jezreel in the golden hours of late Adar evenings. Then do the women go down to…
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Abraham Shlonsky
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Kibbutz Ein Harod, Mandate Palestine (‘En H̱arod - Meuhad, Israel)
Date:
1921
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This is the story of Isaac, son of Abraham. Abraham begot Isaac. Isaac was forty years old when he took to wife Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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My most pious songs have I written
On rising from my sinful bed.
God has given me a wealth of sins,
And God alone has saved me from my sins.
Translated by David Soeterndorp.
Contributor:
Jacob Israël de Haan
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1924
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I have not sung to you, my land,
And I have not glorified your name
With acts of valor,
With booty of battles;
My hands have planted just a tree
On the quiet Jordan shores,
My legs have trodden down…
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Rakhel (Rachel Bluwstein)
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Kevutsat Degania, Mandate Palestine (Deganya Alef, Israel)
Date:
1926