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

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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.

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

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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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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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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.

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

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

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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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Biography

Nationality: Ukrainian

Type: Writer

Born: July 17th, 1888

Died: February 17th, 1970

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