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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
Places:
Satanów, Russian Empire
(Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1808
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In our past lie the answers to all the problems that our present time raises, and in it also lie the keys to the secret gates of our future. [ . . . ]
Onto ground already prepared since the time of…
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Samuel Peltyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1885
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It is written: All the men of Israel . . . knit together as one man (Judg. 20:11). Just as one man is composed of many limbs, and when they become separated it affects the heart…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Liozna, Russian Empire
(Lyozna, Belarus)
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Late 18th–early 19th century
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But must we conclude—as many think—that Halachah and Aggadah are two irreconcilable opposites?
Those who so conclude are confusing accident and form with substance; as who should declare the ice and…
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Chaim Nahman Bialik
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1915
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Indeed, what is necessary is precisely to “cast away the mind,” because it is necessary to cast aside all rational processes and serve God simply. This is because a person’s deeds should outweigh his…
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Nachman of Bratslav
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Bratslav, Russian Empire
(Bratslav, Ukraine)
Date:
1809
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[Vocabulary list in (from right to left) Hebrew, Yiddish, and Russian, with notes in French and English]
Cavern
Antre
Пещера
עלהֶאה
הָרָעְמ
To miss
Manquer
Не пѳпадать
,ןעלהעפרעפ
אֵטֲחַה
(the…
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Israel Ḥayim Taviov
Places:
Riga, Russian Empire
(Riga, Latvia)
Date:
1896