The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of … - Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

Shmuel Yosef Agnon

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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