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

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• Shmuel Yosef Agnon:

  As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was e

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  At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and live by the la

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon:

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

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon:

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

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon:

  I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon:

  I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put

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

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon:

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

• Shmuel Yosef Agnon:

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