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[ . . . W]hile there are undoubtedly articles of faith in Judaism there are, nonetheless, fundamental differences between Judaism and Christianity in the matter of dogma. The first of these is due to…
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Louis Jacobs
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New York City, United States of America
(London, United Kingdom)
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1964
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Isaac de Acosta
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Bayonne, Kingdom of France
(Bayonne, France)
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1709
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The soul of man, Signor Baldassare, is incorruptible, immortal, and divine, created and infused by God into our body when the fetus in the maternal womb was made fit to receive it. This truth is as…
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Sarra Copia Sullam
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Venice, Republic of Venice
(Venice, Italy)
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1621
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Your Holiness,
As the Chief Rabbi of this community, whose history goes back thousands of years, I wish to express to you my intense satisfaction at the gesture you have wished to carry out today…
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Elio Toaff
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Washington D.C., United States of America
(Rome, Italy)
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1986
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Open Letter to His Most Worthy,
Supreme Consistorial Counselor and
Provost Teller at Berlin, from some
Householders of the Jewish Religion
But when the more perfect comes, the
imperfect will pass…
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David Friedländer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1799
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The peace of the Almighty God be with you and with all those who in their faith hope for and desire His grace and mercy.
Dear and good friends and brethren of Israel.
In your letter, you complain…
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Gershom Katz, Ḥayyim Schwarz, Josel of Rosheim
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(Alsace, France)
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1539
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In most of the current reflections on the relation between philosophy and society, it is somehow taken for granted that philosophy always possessed political or social status. According to F arabi…
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Leo Strauss
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Chicago, United States of America
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1952
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Jewish thought, having always been in a vital relation to Christian scholarship—sometimes, as in scholasticism, the influencing part, sometimes, as in the 19th century, the influenced part—has…
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Franz Rosenzweig
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1914
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Of all religious phenomena, there are few which, even when considered merely from the outside, give such an immediate impression of life, richness and complexity as…
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Marcel Mauss
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1909
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“God’s writing engraved on the
tablets”—read not harut (engraved)
but herut (freedom).
—Sayings of the Fathers VI, 2
Among all the problems of present-day Jewish life, that of youth’s attitude…
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Martin Buber
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1919