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Where will you camp, O my ibex, for whom I yearn?
Where will you drip the droplets of your wine and your dew—O formidable one?
If you bring up your beauty to heaven on high,
You will dim…
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Isaac ‘Uziel
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
Early 17th Century
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There have traditionally been two different interpretations of the biblical Song of Songs. It can be read as an erotic love poem or as a poem of yearning for the Land of Israel. Ze’ev Raban’s…
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Ze’ev Raban
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1911–1918
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Since animals do not use these faculties [strength, speed, or cunning] for the purpose of [gaining] their livelihood, this shows that that which a man does with the strength of his body, and the sweat…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1599
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Since the law prohibits one, in no uncertain terms, from depicting figures, the question one may ask is how Jews have had all manner of paintings in their homes? And it is not enough to say that only…
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Moses Raphael d’Aguilar
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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17th Century