Through a historical catastrophe-the destruction of Jerusalem by the Emperor of Rome… – I was born in one of the cities of the Diaspora, but I always deemed myself as one who was really born in Jerusalem.
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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 to the nature of my soul.
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