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HaSefarim™ · Work ID 6a9ddb60ba4aa6e77a361be8 · Chapter ID 6a9ddb60d9e05f87715a5897 · Canonical title Sefer Galut veShivat Yisra’el miBavel · Publication status published
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Families gathered their goods and prepared for the road.
Elders counted households, priests examined genealogies, and leaders arranged the journey.
Some remained in Bavel because their lives had become rooted there.
Others said, “How can we hear that the way to Tziyon is open and choose not to see it?”
The company departed with songs, tears, animals, vessels, children, and the memories of those who had died in exile.