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Jonah prayed to the Lord his God from the belly of the fish. He said:
In my trouble I called to the Lord,
And He answered me;
From the belly of Sheol I cried out,
And You heard my voice.
You cast…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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In the year 5289 (1528/29), the holy martyrs of Pösing, 36 souls—men and women, youths and young girls—were arrested because of a false accusation made by a mamzer, and they died for the…
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Josel of Rosheim
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Holy Roman Empire (Alsace, France)
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1551/2
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The year 5480 of the creation of the earth and heaven, in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, the wailing of the oppressed increased. For then the hooligans began to cut off and harry the…
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Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
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Vilna, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1651
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So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who lived in the same town with Naboth. In the letters she wrote as follows:…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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William Kentridge
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Johannesburg, South Africa
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1994
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There was a man in Castile called Americo. He had a large ship, in which he placed a great number of supplies, as much as his soul desired, and he also resolved in his heart to amass as much booty as…
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Joseph ha-Kohen
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Sabbioneta, Venice (Sabbioneta, Italy)
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1554
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Greetings, Islah.
Now, I shall dispatch legumes tomorrow. Meet the boat tomorrow on Sabbath. Lest, if they get lost, by the life of YHH, I swear that I will take your life. Do not rely on Meshullemeth…
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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ca. 475 BCE
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Caption Translated by Mordechai Cogan.
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Calah, Assyria (Nimrud, Iraq)
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ca. 826 BCE
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How shall I bless him and what will this child be blessed with? asked the angel. Life—so it emerges from the song lyric—was among the options of the angel’s blessing. But after all, angels don’t exist…
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Moshe Zuckermann
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2001
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Year 7. The month Kislev. The king of Akkad mobilized his troops and marched to Hatti.
He encamped against the city of Judah and in the month Adar, day 2, he captured the city; he seized the king. He…
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Nineveh, Assyria (Mosul, Iraq)
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598–597 BCE