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Warsaw, October 17, 1932
Dear friend S. Niger,
When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…
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Aaron Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1932
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Jewry, and religious Jewry in particular, has always attached prime importance to the rebuilding of Eretz Israel. The Hovevei Zion regarded it as a national duty; for the religious it…
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Samuel Chaim Landau
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1924
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And now Blimele, dear child,
Stop—stop playing now.
No time for that.
We can be called at any minute
To leave our poor home
—A lonely boat on an island of sand—
And be hurled into the midst
Of a…
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Simkhe-Bunem Shayevitsh
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Lodz, General Government
(Lodz, Poland)
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1942
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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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One who exchanges good for bad and bad for good, and says that transgressions are really virtuous deeds, and that it is by this means that one can bring the Will of the Creator to fruition—such an…
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Ezekiel Landau
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1760
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[Text:] § 22 The Midrash says: “For the sake of four things were our…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Lublin, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Poland)
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1590
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What is sweeter than honey? (Judges 14:18) a honeycomb of delights.
And what is more to be desired than gold, and a multitude of rubies (Proverbs 20:15)?:
This precious treatise of great worth.
Inclu…
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Isaac Prostitz
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Kraków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1589
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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…
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Shmuel Aba Horodetsky
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Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
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1914
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Indeed, at a time when Israel was settled on their soil, in the land of Israel, the agricultural dimension of the holidays, their relation to the field, that is to say, their material aspect, was a…
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Aaron Samuel Tamares
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1911–1912