Metey midbar
poem by Bialik
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"Metey midbar" (The Dead of the Desert) is a fragment of an epic poem by Haim Na'aman Bialik, a leading Hebrew poet. The poem imaginatively expands on a Talmudic legend concerning the Jewish host who perished in the desert, as mentioned in the biblical book of Exodus. Bialik's work is esteemed for expressing the yearnings of the Jewish people and for developing the modern Hebrew language as a poetic medium. His poetry was deeply influenced by his childhood experiences of poverty and his study of Jewish religious classics.1
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