Occupation: Writer Birth: July 17, 1888 Death: February 17, 1970
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….
Sometimes small things lead to great joys..
If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure..
Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk..
It is not enough for a man to dwell in the Land of Israel, he must also pray to be free..
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….
Our days on earth are like a shadow, and the time of our affliction is the length of our days..
But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem..
I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it..
I am generally ashamed to walk out in new clothes. And why am I ashamed? Is it because I don't want to embarrass the others who don't have new things….
If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after..
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 ….
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….
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….
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..
For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes..
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….
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….
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….
People's talk and the stories they tell have been engraved on my heart, and some of them have flown into my pen..