The Rabbis taught: For two and a half years, the house of Hillel and the house of Shammai argued. One said that it was pleasant for man to be created, and the other said that it would have been more pleasant for man to not have been created. They voted and determined that it would have been more pleasant not to have been created, but now that he had been created, he should investigate his deeds. (Eruvin13b)
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When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, the little space which I fill, and even ...
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Keep me fully glad with nothing. Only take my hand in your hand. In the gloom of the deepening night take up my heart And play with it a...
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If thou speakest not I will fill my heart with thy silence and endure it. I will keep still and wait like the night with starry vigil and...
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