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Note: The word “religion” is not biblical. It is taken over from paganism, where it does not include the factor of freedom. People disagree as to whether it is derived from religere or relegere; about…
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Samuel Hirsch
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1842
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There are facts of such an overwhelming power that even the most stubborn opinion must yield to them. Such a fact is the origin of Judaism in the midst of rude surroundings, like a vigorous…
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Abraham Geiger
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Frankfort, German Confederation
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Breslau, Kingdom of Prussia
(Wrocław, Poland)
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1864
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O God of Hosts, our God from of old,
Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore
That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself
To set them up as the target of…
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Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn
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1842