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

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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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"Through these offices it was my privilege to get to know almost every Jewish person, and those whom I did not come to know through these offices I came to know through love and a desire to know my brethren, the members of my people."

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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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