Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after. If we breathe the scent of goodly grass, the fragrance of spices, the aroma of good fruits, we pronounce a blessing over the pleasure. The same applies to pleasures of the sight. And the same applies to pleasures of the ear.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]

I was five years old when I wrote my first song. It was out of longing for my father that I wrote it.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:34]

For myself, I am very small indeed in my own eyes.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:07]

The fate of the singers who, like my songs, went up in flame was also the fate of the books which I later wrote. All of them went up in flame to Heaven in a fire which broke out one night at my home in Bad Homburg as I lay ill in a hospital.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [07/13/2011 12:07:26]

If I am proud of anything, it is that I have been granted the privilege of living in the land which God promised our forefathers to give us, as it is written.More Shmuel Yosef Agnon quotes [03/29/2018 05:03:36]