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Sambation

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in Jerusalem that they had heard from Muslim merchants that the river was located about fifty-days' walking distance from their place as one journeys through the desert. The river, which flows with rocks for six days a week, completely surrounded a land inhabited by Jews who could not ever leave, for
152:, the river is given no particular attributes, but later literature claims that it rages with rapids and throws up stones six days a week, or even consists entirely of stone, sand and flame. For those six days the Sambation is impossible to cross, but it stops flowing every 232:", cut off from the rest of Jewry by the legendary river Sambation, "whose foaming waters raise high up into the sky a wall of fire and smoke that is impossible to pass through". 190:
7.96-99), although according to his account it is dry for six days and flows only on Shabbat. The river is believed by some to be an intermittent spring now called
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writes of the Sabbatical River (Σαββατικον) that he claims was called after "the sacred seventh day of the Jews" and that he locates between
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The Sambation was a popular subject in medieval literature, for instance, some versions of the
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are not allowed to travel; some writers say this is the origin of the name.
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In 1929 Lazar Borodulin published the only Yiddish science fiction novel,
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On the other side of the Sambation, a scientific and fantastic novel
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Oyf yener zayt sambatyen, visnshaftlekher un fantastisher roman
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In modern literature, the Sambation appears prominently in
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Index

Sanbation
Sambatiyon

lead section
summarize
provide an accessible overview

choir
Frankfurt (Oder)
Red Jews
rabbinic literature
Hebrew
river
Ten Lost Tribes
Israel
Assyrian
Shalmaneser V
Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
Shabbat
Jews
Pliny the Elder
Judaea
Josephus
Arka
Raphanea
Abraham Abulafia
Kabbalist
Nahmanides
Guzana River
II Kings

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