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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1879
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Honored Conference:
Three liberating moments in Jewish history created our movement.
I don’t want to be a prophet, and to proclaim that we are now experiencing a new historical moment, that we are…
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Y. L. Peretz
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1908
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When Rabbi Zusya went to suffer the exile in Germany, he came to a city of Reform Jews. When they saw his ways, they mocked him and thought he was crazy. When he came into the synagogue, some of them…
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Elimelech of Lizhensk, Zusya of Annopol (Hanipoli)
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1902
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Never have I been content with my narrow, dark, gloomy world, and always am I aware of the contrast between the great, beautiful world and my tiny, ugly world. And always I say, “The place is too…
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Yitsḥak Twersky
Places:
Shpikov, Russian Empire
(Shpykiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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With the grace of God, Friday, before the Shabbat of the reading of Noah, 5672 [1911].
To our fellow Hasidim (in the city of Turov),
My stomach turned and my ears burned on hearing the terrible news…
Contributor:
Israel Perlow
Places:
Stolin, Russian Empire
(Stolin, Belarus)
Date:
1911