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Indeed, our human situation now stands on such a low level that we need not look either to intellectual or to outside factors to account for its stumbling blocks or confusions. Nowadays, if one is in…
Contributor:
Yoyzl Horowitz
Places:
Novogrudok, Russian Empire
(Navahrudak, Belarus)
Date:
1914
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We see that the categories of understanding the nation produced in its adolescence are a result of emotions developed in its childhood. According to our approach, we can conclude that the Talmud—which…
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Ḥayim Tchernowitz
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1901
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An Addendum to the History of R. Moses Isserles
Rabbinic literature assigns to customs (minhag) an extensive and highly prominent role. In fact, the talmudic sages always looked upon customs with…
Contributor:
Shmuel Aba Horodetsky
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1914
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In those days a new light shone forth over the skies of Polish Jewry—R. Solomon Luria. [ . . . ] This great rabbi was one of those unique individuals, one of those few men of virtue that not every…
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Ḥayim Tchernowitz
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire
(Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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There is a severe admonition addressed to every individual within Israel not to add any precept on his own initiative onto those precepts which are written in the Torah, and…
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Simhah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
Places:
Lutsk, Russian Empire
(Lutsk, Ukraine)
Date:
ca. 1750