“If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.”
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Hebrew writer; Nobel laureate in literature. Shemu’el Yosef Agnon (formerly Czaczkes) was born in Buczacz, a small town in eastern Galicia, then under Austro-Hungarian rule. He left his hometown permanently when he was 20, but Buczacz and Galicia had a place in his literary work for the rest of his life. “Although forty years had passed since Dr. Langsam had left his birthplace, he still talked about it all the time,” says Agnon, as if describing himself but referring to one of the characters in his novel Sipur pashut (A Simple Story; 1935). — Source: `http://www.yivoencyclopedia.org/article.aspx/Agnon_Shemuel_Yosef`
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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 k...”
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“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 othe...”
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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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“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 have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.”
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