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

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

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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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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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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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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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