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Once, at night, after the seven days of mourning, while I lay on the sacks dozing, someone came to me, the Evil One himself, and said to me, “Gimpl, why are you sleeping?”
“What should I be doing,” I…
Contributor:
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1945
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You will assuredly regard it as wondrous, and it will gladden your heart that I too regarded as wondrous the vision vouchsafed to me by the Almighty in relation to the aliyot “ascents”—wondrous things…
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Ba‘al Shem Tov
Places:
Międzyboż, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Medzhybizh, Ukraine)
Date:
1752
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That year my wife, Hannah, became extremely ill and one Sabbath she was in a coma and close to death. At night, at the conclusion of the Sabbath, we approached her to witness the departure of the…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Vital
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century