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The mystery of prayer on the days of Rosh Hashanah presents itself with characteristic familiarity: it reveals itself to those who want to fulfill it, and eludes those who want only to know it.
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Berlin, Nazi Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
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1936
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Gentlemen, today is the seventh of Adar, the anniversary of the death of Moses our teacher, of blessed memory. We have gathered in…
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Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
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1939
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[ . . . ] I find myself obliged to commence with a general preface, which I bring to the fore on each occasion that I have occasion to speak about the way of “the Mizrachi” [movement] and its value…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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Date unknown, late 19th–early 20th century
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[ . . . ] And all the more so with our brethren the people of Israel who come from the lands of the dispersion, who do not know and have not seen the way in which every person called by the name of…
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Samuel Aboab
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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ca. 1650
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The aforementioned lights are sufficient to flee from gossip and to shut one’s ears to the gossipmonger and to the talebearer because they are enemies to be greatly feared, which are found in a…
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Isaac de Moses de Paz
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Livorno, Grand Duchy of Tuscany
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1734
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The Lord to the prophet Ezekiel (may he rest in peace): you, son of man, show the House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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In his De officiis, most discreet reader, Tullius Cicero writes that nothing can move us so powerfully as to see some form or kind of benefit, which must be esteemed all the more, the less it is of an…
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Yom Tob Athias, Abraham Usque
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Ferrara, Duchy of Ferrara
(Ferrara, Italy)
Date:
1553
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Should we not cry and weep that until now our scholars have not concerned themselves to provide us with a 24 [i.e., Bible] in Yiddish, arranged according to the simple meaning of the text, word for…
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Jekutiel Blitz
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1676–1679
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The Master of the Universe gave us the holy and blessed law so that we would enjoy l’olam haba [the world to come], so that we would know and see the light of eternal life. Study and a good…
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Abraham ben Shabbetai Kohen, Abraham Asá
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1739
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It was explained earlier in part 2 that faith is [like a] possession that is, it is a possession that belongs to man’s soul, the way knowledge belongs to the soul…
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Judah ben Eleazar
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Kashan, Safavid Empire
(Kashan, Iran)
Date:
1686