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Genesis 1:26. Let us make man in our image, as our likeness.
Genesis 9:6. For in the image of God made he man.
Deuteronomy 4:15. And guard ye your souls greatly, for ye saw no manner of…
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Menasseh Ben Israel
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1633
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ḥaver:Do you think languages are eternal, and have no beginning?
Kuzari:They are invented and instituted by common consent, rather than natural; this is evident from their composition of nouns, verbs…
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Jacob Abendana
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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1663
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“Is the Bene-Israel in India a pure Jew by descent” is the question often asked and discussed. There has been considerable literature on the subject especially by aliens, even such as can claim little…
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Jacob Bapuji Israel
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Bombay, British India
(Mumbai, India)
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1918
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If wandering, considered as the liberation from every given point in space, is the conceptual opposite to being fixed to a given point, then the sociological form of “the stranger” presents the union…
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Georg Simmel
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1906
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The primary task of our discussion today on the question of ethical behavior is that we gain clarity about the field as a whole, that we review and discuss our particular stance on this matter, and…
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Bertha Pappenheim
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Frankfurt am Main, German Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1906
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Why does the name of Orpheus, “the first of the world’s singers,” as Lefranc de Pompignan called him, appear on the title-page of this volume? Because he was not merely “the first singer,”…
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Salomon Reinach
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1909
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What is the sought-after culture? What are all the great ideals, all of man’s lofty ideals? What does man seek in life?
If only man knew what he should seek in life! All great ideals were only created…
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Aaron David Gordon
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(Israel, Israel)
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1910
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One may consider this work a sort of memorial book that captures the history of the Jews and Judaism in our century. It does not narrate stories but reports; it presents personages about whom I was…
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Moritz Lazarus
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1887
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[ . . . ] 2. When you stroll along the riverbank, you find an entire plain filled with reeds and bulrushes, all of which are standing erect, one adjacent to the other, and none of them…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
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Satanów, Russian Empire
(Sataniv, Ukraine)
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1808
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And Joshua said unto all Israel: “Draw near,” etc.—Joshua 3:9.
In Midrash Genesis Rabbah, section 5 (Gen. Rabbah 5:7), it is stated: “Rav Huna said: ‘He stood them up between the two staves of the…
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Israel Salanter
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19th century