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When will the walls of prejudice collapse,
That split the fraternal human tribe into foes?
Will the flame of love, illuminating the earth,
Disperse the grim darkness of ignorance?
—Meanwhile the sun…
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Franciszka Arnsztajnowa
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Lublin, Russian Empire
(Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1889
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It is a work that contains two hundred precious and wondrous stories, full of ethical [edification] and [inspiring] fear of the Lord, sweeter than honey, bringing joy to oppressed hearts and souls…
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Yitsḥak Dov Ber ben Tsvi Hirsh
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Poland, Poland)
Date:
1900
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In recent years, a time when the branches of science planted in the vineyard of the Enlightenment stretch out to our brethren in our land [i.e., the Russian Empire], and many eat their fruit, and many…
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Mordechai Tsvi Mane
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
(St Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1881
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In establishing this monthly periodical today, we believe that we are doing that which the times demand, its absence being felt by many.
We are not establishing a study house for sages who will sit…
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Ahad Ha-Am
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1896/97
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3 Shevat 5663 [January 31, 1903]
From all the Zionist essays emerge that which we see with our very eyes: their entire purpose and effort is to instill the supposition among Jews that the Torah and…
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Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson
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Lubavitch, Russian Empire
(Lyubavichi, Russia)
Date:
1903
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Once there was a rabbi who had no children. Finally, he had an only son. He raised him and married him off. The son used to sit in an attic room and study in the manner of rich men and he always…
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Nachman of Bratslav
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Bratslav, Russian Empire
(Bratslav, Ukraine)
Date:
1815
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If a visitor to Berditchev wishes to hear a typical Jewish melody, let him listen to Reb Nisson Belzer’s protégé. If it is Berditchever Chassidic song he desires, he should go to the Karliner shtibel…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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He looked, and there was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep lying down by it, for from that well the flocks were watered. But the stone was large on the mouth of the well. When…
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Sefat Emet (Judah Leib Alter)
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(Poland, Poland)
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1905
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From the silence of the night I heard a clamor,
Like the clank of chains of bondage, the sound of linked fetters
Jangling each other—
The heavens opened,
And suddenly a great flood of light burst…
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David Frishman
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1896
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6. “It is proper,” etc. The phraseology employed by the Tur is “And one should cover one’s head so that one should not be in a state of bareheadedness”—this is taken from the words of the Ba‘al ha-…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
ca. 1803