Showing Results 21 - 30 of 35
Restricted
Text
I understood very early that life is a serious business. I do not remember committing any of those childish pranks that everyone keeps in his distant memory. From the age of four I was sent to the mel…
Contributor:
Gabriel Arié
Places:
Davos, Switzerland
Date:
1906
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Khaye-Gite came. She is a typical grandmother. She talks to God quietly, politely. She wasn’t too keen on telling us about being a grandmother. She just told us a few things. She knows lots…
Contributor:
S. An-ski
Places:
Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1912–1913
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The Jewish kindergarten not only needs to be, but also can be in Hebrew. But at the same time, we must recognize that in the countries of exile, this matter entails arduous labor. If we saw the…
Contributor:
Yeḥiel Heilprin
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1917
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
At the beginning of the month of Tammuz 5349 [began June 15, 1589], in order not to remain idle, I began to give lessons in Torah to the son of Manasseh Levi of blessed memory and to Joseph the son of…
Contributor:
Leone Modena
Places:
Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1618–1648
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Taking a leaf from the role of learning amongst many Modern/Centrist Zionist Orthodox Jews, adult Jewish study should become a permanent feature of the Jewish home everywhere, whereby adults are…
Contributor:
Alvin I. Schiff
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1999
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The truth, the mathematical truth, is that a new century begins on January 1 of the year one of the new hundred-year time span. But it is the custom to celebrate a new century on January 1 of the last…
Contributor:
Melekh Ravitch
Places:
Montreal, Canada
Date:
1962
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
In the month of Tevet of the same year I entered that school and began studying Greek with tremendous dedication. I repented of all my previous actions and habits, just as I had promised my father (of…
Contributor:
Abraham Rosanes
Places:
Ruse, Ottoman Empire (Ruse, Bulgaria)
Date:
1864
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
While he was on his journey, Elijah the Prophet revealed himself to him and said: “Because of the merit of your behavior a son will be born to you who will bring light to Israel…
Contributor:
Unknown
Places:
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
[ . . . ] Some [Jewish] people have children who may be likened to seeds, others who can be likened to vegetables, and yet others, to thorns. When parents raise their children in the ways of Torah…
Contributor:
Shaul Shoḥet
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1915/16
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The heder was in the basement. It was a dark, damp room with a low ceiling. There were two windows on the ground level. In the middle of the room, there was a long wooden table covered…
Contributor:
Doiv Ber Levin
Date:
1932