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We see that the categories of understanding the nation produced in its adolescence are a result of emotions developed in its childhood. According to our approach, we can conclude that the Talmud—which…
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Ḥayim Tchernowitz
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1901
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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
Places:
Slavuta, Russian Empire
(Slavuta, Ukraine)
Date:
1798
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In those days a new light shone forth over the skies of Polish Jewry—R. Solomon Luria. [ . . . ] This great rabbi was one of those unique individuals, one of those few men of virtue that not every…
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Ḥayim Tchernowitz
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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But must we conclude—as many think—that Halachah and Aggadah are two irreconcilable opposites?
Those who so conclude are confusing accident and form with substance; as who should declare the ice and…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1915
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There is a severe admonition addressed to every individual within Israel not to add any precept on his own initiative onto those precepts which are written in the Torah, and…
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Simhah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
Places:
Lutsk, Russian Empire
(Lutsk, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1750