1. A Twig Alighted Hayyim Nahman Bialik: A twig Alighted on a fence and dozed; So do I sleep

2. Allegorizers of Torah and the Story of Their Prosecution in Languedoc (1305) The attempt of the great Catalonian Sage, Rashba, to limit philosophic study and interpretation of Torah in Languedoc (southern France)[1] and to excommunicate one of its well-known practitioners, Levi ben Avraham ben Hayyim of Villefranche-de-Conflent