People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen..

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 Heav….

If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after..

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 citi….

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

A home from which you can be ejected at any time is no true home..

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is….

Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one of the cities in the diaspora. But I alway….

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

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 ….

On everything you need to hear other people's opinions. It's the only way to do things. You ask a friend's advice and then between the two of you thi….

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

Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days..

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing..

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….

Sometimes small things lead to great joys..

But perhaps the truth newly discovered is itself only temporary and when new discoveries are made these truths too will be abandoned. But one truth r….

God in heaven sits on high and plays games with us. He has plenty to do up there, what with building worlds and then knocking them down again, breaki….

Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignoranc….

Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any….

But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem..