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Zvi Orushkes (Oron)
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine
(Tel Aviv, Israel)
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1927
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Even in the past, some thirty to forty years ago, when Jewish life in Russia was still very conservative, there was a difference between those cities and towns located…
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Meir Berlin
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1933
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The word “Galut” embraces a whole world of facts and ideas that have appeared with varying strength and clarity in every age of Jewish…
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Yitshak Baer
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1936
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No chapter in the history of the Jewish people during the last several hundred years has been as shrouded in mystery as that of the Sabbatian movement. On one point, at least, there is no longer any…
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Gershom Scholem
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1937
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The holy tongue is a language like no other. All other tongues exist only by agreement, each nation having agreed upon its language. But the holy tongue is the one…
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Shmuel Yosef Agnon
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1937
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Man has separated lust and sorrow.
But God holds them together like day and night.
I know lust. I know intense suffering.
I praise God’s one name.
Translated by David Soeterndorp.
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Jacob Israël de Haan
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1924
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Jewish mysticism in its various forms represents an attempt to interpret the religious values of Judaism in terms of mystical values. It concentrates upon the idea of the living God who manifests…
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Gershom Scholem
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1941