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We live in a time of a universal striving for science and civilization, and the spirit of the time warms the hearts of everyone alike with its breath. It permeates the depths of the soul and reason…
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Israel Leon Grosglik
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Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1869
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“Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. The religious sense prays as the intellectual organ thinks.” Prayer, to carry this saying of Novalis a step further, is a significant…
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Nahum N. Glatzer
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New York, United States of America
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1947
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But I want to go on recounting how the Prague movement developed, and what made the revolution, which brought so many impressive, great, and noble things to light everywhere, made everything in Prague…
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Moritz Hartmann
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Stuttgart, German Empire
(Stuttgart, Germany)
Date:
1874
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In 1735, Eleazar ben Samuel arrived in Amsterdam to take up the post of chief rabbi of the Ashkenazic community. To mark the occasion, Joel ben Lippman Levi minted a medal. On the front of the medal…
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Joel ben Lippman Levi
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1735
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I will raise the matter of trimming the beard
He trims it away like leaven [on the eve of Passover]
He leaves only a small goatee.
One more…
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Anonymous
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16th Century