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What is the testimony that proves my guilt? The punishment itself. Although Naomi says that she must have been guilty, it’s as if she doesn’t really know what she is guilty of. It’s only when things…
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1992
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The Book of Leviticus is not terribly popular among American Jews of my acquaintance. […] Leviticus seems so repetitive, so anachronistic. […] [The] book is in many…
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Arnold M. Eisen
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Stanford, United States of America
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1997
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Through narrative, poetry, law, and prayer, the Bible conditions its readers to feel reverence for nature, enjoins restraint in the exploitation of natural resources for human needs, elicits awe in…
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David M. Gordis
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Albany, United States of America
Date:
2001
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40. When the tradition concerning the opposition of the sea and its confederates to the will of the Creator of the…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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1943
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In every village in the region, in every farmhouse you’d meet them, the Boyars. The first Boyar, family legend had it, had settled in the Polesian forests many generations ago. His name had been Ezra…
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Eli Shechtman
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1965
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We, the entire assembly of the congregation of Israel, believe that the Torah that is in our possession today is exactly the same as was written by Moses our master, peace be on him. From then until…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1783
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I heard from the venerable rabbinic scholar, R. Nahman, an interpretation of the words of [the Besht] that one should intend in every word that he utters submissiveness…
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Jacob Joseph of Polnoye
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Polonnoye, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polonne, Ukraine)
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1780
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Jeremiah:Not now the time for beginnings. The end draws nigh.
The Mother:It is time! It is time! Long since have you grown to manhood. The house has need of a wife, and of children to raise up seed…
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Stefan Zweig
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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The little sons of Abraham took shells
And floated boats made out of mother-pearl;
Then Isaac leaned in fear on Ishmael.
And mournfully sang the two black swans
Quite gloomy notes…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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The object of this publication, an Ethiopian text, is taken from a book of Falasha prayers which I acquired from Dabtarà Bàrok, a Jewish man of letters, in Adenkato. It contains the…
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Jacques Faïtlovitch
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Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1906