“Nothing in the entire world is worthy but for that day on which The Song of Songs was given to Israel”

—  Akiba ben Joseph

Mishnah https://www.sefaria.org.il/Mishnah_Yadayim.3.5?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en|

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