After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
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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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If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
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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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Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
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