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Last Updated on May 30, 2021

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

I Was Born
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Nov 07, 2020

As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its land, I was born in one of the cities of the Exile.

Hands
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Nov 07, 2020

At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the labour of my hands. As I did not find work, I sought my livelihood elsewhere.

Born
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Nov 07, 2020

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.

I Am
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Nov 07, 2020

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.

Day
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Nov 07, 2020

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

Heart
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Nov 07, 2020

I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put into my heart and into my pen.

First
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Nov 07, 2020

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.

Drink
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Nov 07, 2020

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.

Drunk
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Nov 07, 2020

Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.

Blessing
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Nov 07, 2020

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.

Me
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Nov 07, 2020

The beginnings of my studies also came to me from my father, as well as from the Rabbinical Judge of our town. But they were preceded by three tutors under whom I studied, one after the other, from the time I was three and a half till I turned eight and a half.

Fire
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Nov 07, 2020

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.

Love
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Nov 07, 2020

Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people.

My Soul
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Nov 07, 2020

When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul.

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