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In my opinion, one cannot understand the development of the Science of Judaism except by taking note of the profound contradictions or, if you will, the unique dialectical tensions present within it…
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Gershom Scholem
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1944
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What does the Voice of Auschwitz command?
Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…
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Emil L. Fackenheim
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New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
1969
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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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This foldout calendar is a beautifully illuminated feature that appears in a sefer ‘evronot. Works of this genre were Jewish calendar handbooks for calculating the dates of religious holidays and…
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Artist Unknown
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1552
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Just as King David combined his ability as warrior with his sacred liturgical activity, so nowadays physical exercise done to provide the Nation with strength and the spiritual exercises of the…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1904–1914
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Mr. Abraham Galante, editor of La Vara, has recently developed a plan for Jewish colonization in the Sudan. Although he treats the old proposal to settle Jews in Uganda as a point of departure…
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Abraham Galante
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Cairo, Ottoman Empire
(Cairo, Egypt)
Date:
1906
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The echo that Marx’s writing arouses in Jews’ hearts provides clearer evidence [of Marx’s influence on Judaism].
As everybody knows, a Jewish proletariat did not exist during Marx’s lifetime…
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Zalman Shazar
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1918
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Maimonides, the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, was of the opinion that the principles and methods of metaphysics formed part of the traditional lore of the sages of the Mishnah and…
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Isaac Herzog
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Ireland, Ireland
New York City, United States of America
Date:
1929
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[ . . . ] The duality in the attitudes of cognitive man and homo religiosus is rooted in existence itself. Cognitive man concerns himself with a simple and “candid” reality. He does not seek to closet…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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1943
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The telos (takhlit) of man’s activities, in the aspect (behinah) of having will and choice, is the ultimate human good (ha’hatslahah ha’enoshi’it). This excellence necessarily comes after the…
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Solomon Maimon
Places:
Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1792