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Issachar Ber Ryback
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1923
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[ . . . ] Immanuel Kant once wrote: “The true [moral] service of God is . . . invisible, i.e., it is the service of the heart, in spirit and in truth, and it may consist . . . only of intention.” Thi…
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Eliezer Berkovits
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Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1959
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It is not the plan of this essay to discuss the millennium-old problem of faith and reason. I want instead to focus attention on a human-life situation in which the man of faith as an individual…
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1965
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We were living directly after the Holocaust of the European Jews. We might scorn our origins; we might crush America with discoveries of ardor; we might change our names. But we knew that but for an…
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Eliezer Greenberg
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New York City, United States of America
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1969
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The Holy Community of Altona, Friday, 29 Marheshvan 5621[14 November 1860]
To my dear friend, father of my son-in-law, the distinguished rabbi, our Teacher, R. Shemaryahu Zuckerman, may his…
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Jacob Ettlinger
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1860
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New York, 28 May, 1753
Mr. Aaron Lopez
Dear Sir:
I have received your esteemed letter, in which you so kindly inform me that our Lord has given you a son. For this I extend the due felicitations to…
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Aaron Lopez, Benjamin Gomez
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New York, British America and the British West Indies (New York, United States of America)
Newport, British America and the British West Indies (Newport, United States of America)
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1753–1767
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Tuesday, parashat Shemini 5643 (1883), Sighet.
To the astute and erudite master, R. Eli Marder, may his light shine. I received your letter concerning the wicked men who do not allow their sons to be…
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Yekutiel Yehudah Teitelbaum
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Sziget, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Szigetvár, Hungary)
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1883
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İzmir, Ottoman Empire (İzmir, Turkey)
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Early 20th Century
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Emanuel Eisler
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ca. 1880
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Paper cuts were a distinctive Jewish folk art in Eastern Europe, where rural Poles and Ukrainians also practiced the craft. Jewish paper cuts had their own techniques and imagery and were used for…
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Late 19th Century