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At a time when the worship of the dead letter degenerated into idolatry; at a time when men passed their lives in counting the verses, the words and the letters of the Law, at a time when the official…
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Adolphe Franck
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Paris, France
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1843
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You ask me for my opinion on the question which at present agitates so greatly the minds of men, emancipation; whether I consider it feasible and desirable, according to the spirit of Judaism, our…
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Samson Raphael Hirsch
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Oldenburg, German Confederation (Oldenburg, Germany)
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1836
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As the first and most beautiful relationship in which woman is undeniably necessary to man—the object of his first affections, to whom he owes all of cherishing, happiness, and health, from infancy to…
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Grace Aguilar
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Brighton, United Kingdom
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1844
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Ḥaver:Do you think languages are eternal, and have no beginning?Kuzari:They are invented and instituted by common consent, rather than natural; this is evident from their composition of nouns, verbs…
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Jacob Abendana
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1663
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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)
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1809
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The Jewish people did not begin to philosophize because of an irresistible urge to do so. They received philosophy from outside sources, and the history of Jewish philosophy is a history of the…
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Julius Guttmann
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
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1933
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Early trauma—defence—latency—outbreak of the neurosis—partial return of the repressed material: this was the formula we drew up for the development of a neurosis. Now I will invite the…
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Sigmund Freud
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London, United Kingdom
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1939
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“People generally say: the Torah before anything else. I, however, would say: Jews are holy, and they come first.” [Seder Eliyahu Rabba 14.2]This is the history of how Jewish thinking became enslaved…
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Ya‘akov Ze’ev Latski-Bertholdi
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1914
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Following the example of Plato, I have Socrates in his last hours relate the arguments for the immortality of the human soul to his students. The dialogue of the Greek author, which has the name Phaed…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1767
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Noble-mindedness is a very fine character trait in the soul of man, and it extends in many directions: primarily in three, which are, noble-mindedness in wisdom, noble-mindedness in power, and noble…
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Naphtali Herts Wessely
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1780s