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What makes a book like this more than just a collection of excerpts, strung together interchangeably? What makes it a book? If I were to say it had been a matter of selection, who would venture to…
Contributor:
S. Y. Agnon
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1959
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I cannot refrain from relating an amazing, true story that I heard from that mouth of sanctity, the most outstanding disciple of our Holy Master, the rebbe, my dear friend—may…
Contributor:
Israel ben Samuel of Shklov
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1836
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No chapter in the history of the Jewish people during the last several hundred years has been as shrouded in mystery as that of the Sabbatian movement. On one point, at least, there is no longer any…
Contributor:
Gershom Scholem
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937