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Rabbi Elhanan related:
“I once asked the Hafetz Chaim:
“Granted that we are accustomed to a division of eras in Jewish religious history—the Tannaitic era separately, and the Amoraic era separately…
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Elhanan Wasserman
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Baranovitsh, General Government (Baranovichi, Belarus)
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ca. 1939
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It is not unusual for committed Jewish women to be uneasy about their position as Jews. It was to cry down our doubts that rabbis developed their pre-packaged orations on the nobility of motherhood…
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Rachel Adler
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1971
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Hebron, Ottoman Palestine (Hebron, Palestine)
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Early 20th Century
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This issue was the focus of controversy in eretz yisrael, and the whole land . . . quaked with the…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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[ . . . ] I look upon this humble beginning as a potentially significant step. It is the first nonsectarian university which becomes the corporate responsibility of the Jewish community in America…
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Abram L. Sachar
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Waltham, United States of America
Date:
1948
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Shulḥan ‘Aruk, a term taken over from early rabbinic exegesis in the Midrash and applied to one of the most influential, truly epochal literary creations of Jewish history, has a double or even triple…
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Isadore Twersky
Places:
Cambridge, United States of America
Date:
1967