Ukrainian - Writer | July 17, 1888 - February 17, 1970
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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For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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