I used to say that all the time. I always knew it was said by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, the author of the Kuzari. But I just learned this week that he did make it to the Holy Land only to be murdered right in front of the kotel...How sad.
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5 comments:
I used to say that all the time. I always knew it was said by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi, the author of the Kuzari. But I just learned this week that he did make it to the Holy Land only to be murdered right in front of the kotel...How sad.
I ought to post the pics I took yesterday.
there is a conservative shul in hawaii called sof maarav
BAILA:
i think that is just a legend
"I always knew it was said by Rabbi Yehuda HaLevi"
it is a poem he wrote
Lion-
That's a very clever name for a shul in Hawaii.
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