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Bucharest, Austrian Empire
(Bucharest, Romania)
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1859
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Living in accordance with the Halakhah, demarcating a sphere of the sacred through halakhic practice—is this the ultimate end of the religious life? The answer is both yes and no. On the one hand…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1953
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Rabbinic literature is replete with valuable information about the life, manners and customs of the ancients. Many passages in it can be properly understood only in the general frame of its…
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Saul Lieberman
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1962
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Out of a world in which man was viewed fundamentally as an instrument, one among other means of attaining desired ends—be they economic or political—emerged a view so totally different as to amount to…
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Moshe Greenberg
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1966
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Shulḥan ‘Aruk, a term taken over from early rabbinic exegesis in the Midrash and applied to one of the most influential, truly epochal literary creations of Jewish history, has a double or even triple…
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Isadore Twersky
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Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1967
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We recite the blessing “Who performed miracles for our forefathers, etc.” on Hanukkah and Purim, but we do not do so on Passover, even though the Exodus…
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Levi Isaac of Berdichev
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Slavuta, Russian Empire
(Slavuta, Ukraine)
Date:
1798
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By emphasizing religious activity, Judaism is completely tied to life and becomes the property of every individual Jew. A religion of pure ideas belongs primarily to the theologians; the masses who…
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Zechariah Fraenkel
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Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony
(Dresden, Germany)
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1845
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[…] The question is merely theoretical today. There is, at present, no negotiating partner, as the Arabs are demanding the return of the entire Land of Israel, including Jerusalem, to which all the…
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Ovadia Yosef
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1989
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I was asked by a resident in London concerning a portable electric lamp called “Kosher Lamp” which has a separate upper part which is made to direct the light or to cover it up altogether by twisting…
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Chanoch HaCohen Ehrentreu
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
2003
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Isfahan, Sublime State of Iran
(Isfahan, Iran)
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1887