"The beginnings of my studies also came to……" — Shmuel Yosef Agnon
"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."
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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17 Quotes by Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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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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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.
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I returned to Jerusalem, and it is by virtue of Jerusalem that I have written all that God has put…
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Sometimes small things lead to great joys.
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As a result of the historic catastrophe in which Titus of Rome destroyed Jerusalem and Israel was exiled from its…
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The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books…
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I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe,…
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At the age of nineteen and a half, I went to the Land of Israel to till its soil and…
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Through a historical catastrophe - the destruction of Jerusalem by the emperor of Rome - I was born in one…
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But always I regarded myself as one who was born in Jerusalem.
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For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.
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