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Scenes from everyday life are scarcely to be found in these pages. Rather you will feel that you have been transported for a while to some far-off, exotic country where different flowers grow and…
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Jirí Langer
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1937
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Upon you, great ones, the rebbes of the Hasidim, who follow the path of the Ba‘al Shem Tov, and of whose glorious name they boast and by…
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Eliezer Zweifel
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1873
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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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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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rebbe levi yitskhok
tsine, his wife
khayim, their son
gnendl, their daughter
taybele, their daughter
henekh yoel, gabbai
oyzer, butcher
zavl, butcher
itshe
mordkhe
moyshe
khveder…
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Peretz Hirshbein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1919
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Thus I went to all the tsadikim and I heard what they say in secret, and I also took the letters that they or those who serve them sent to one another and they didn’t see, because by means of the…
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Joseph Perl
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Vienna, Austrian Empire
(Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1819
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In general, the power of the influence exerted by the Master, R. Mendele, on my revered father over many years since his return from (studying with) him, was very great. […
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Barukh Ha-Levi Epstein
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1926
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We’re laughing our heads off:
None of us wears a top-hat
We just go around with heads—or without heads—
But the Rabbi of Uman
Holds up a mirror to the sun.
We laugh our heads off
When a gang comes…
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Leyb Kvitko
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1923
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As a general rule, however, the spirit and illuminating power of the zaddik affect and inspire only those of his generation who are favorably disposed toward him. They have…
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Isaac Judah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno
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Komarno, Austrian Empire
(Komarno, Ukraine)
Date:
19th century
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During the weeks that Eleazar spent in pious contemplation in old Asia, the people of Barcelona took pains to persecute the Jews. It was they, once again, who made it hard for Spanish merchants to…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, Weimar Republic
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1921