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We resist the penetration of capitalism and mercantilism into Palestine. How can we at this moment in history reconcile that with our conscience? Dare we burden this Zionist…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
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1919
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In the year five thousand three hundred twenty-four [1564] of the Creation of the World, when we are returned to the houses of our fathers from the four corners of the world. After the expulsion in…
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Ḥevra Kadisha of Prague
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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16th Century
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This is the statute of the Torah . . . זאת חקת התורה—It should say זאת חקת הפרה (“this is the statute of the heifer”), as it says elsewhere “this is the statute of the Passover” (Exodus 12:43)! And if…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1610
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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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We read in Proverbs:
If you make your ear attentive to wisdom
And your mind open to discernment;
If you call to understanding
And cry aloud to discernment,
If you seek it as you do silver…
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Judah Loew
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1595
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Lord God, You are very merciful
So incline Your ears toward us
And Remove Your Anger from us
For the Great sins that we have. Father, King
committed
Day and night we will pray to God
To accept…
Contributor:
Toybe Pan
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1680
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How, I ask you, could we have continued to be a nation until the present, and how could we have been able to walk such a great distance along the path of history without losing our unity or having our…
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Solomon Judah Rapoport
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Prag, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1845
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Before she labored, she was delivered;
Before her pangs came, she bore a son!
—Isaiah 66:7
Fear not, worm of Jacob,
O people of Israel,
For I will help you.
—Isaiah 41:14
The hard, painful hour…
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Fanny Neuda
Places:
Loschitz, Austrian Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1854
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The Lord to the prophet Ezekiel (may he rest in peace): you, son of man, show the House to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
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ca. 1600
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“Moses received the Torah from Sinai” [m. Avot 1:1]:
R. [Ovadiah] from Bartenura has explained this to mean “from the One revealed at Sinai.” And there, when God revealed Himself at Sinai, Moses…
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Yom Tov Lipmann Mühlhausen, Theodore Hackspan, Yom Tov Lipmann Heller
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1614–1617