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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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"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."
"Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk."
"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."
"If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after."
"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."
"I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it."
"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."
"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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