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May salvation be near, and we be cleansed of great sin. Amen.
I, the undersigned, have witnessed the bad custom practiced among young men on the days of Purim, that in the synagogue during the…
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Moses Bili ben Judah, The Jewish Community of Crete
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Crete, Republic of Venice
(Crete, Greece)
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1545
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For Yom Kippur, with the help of God, may He be praised.
Another supplication [teḥinah]. I have founded it as the former ones, have established it, and upheld it.
I the young one, Meir, son of our…
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Meir de Boton
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1565
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985. The ancient custom of kaparot [having a chicken slaughtered after symbolically transferring one’s sins to it] is well known; I will only write that my custom is also to say, based on the Maharal…
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Joseph Yuspa Hahn Nordlingen
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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17th Century
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The portion of Va-yikra’, on the holy Sabbath, 7th Adar II, 5331 [1571]. I delivered this sermon before a large audience, in honor of the King, king of kings, the Holy One, blessed be He.
[When any…
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Solomon le-vet ha-Levi
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1568–1574
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Kabbalists prayed using the basic Jewish prayers, but added certain elements according to their own tradition. The prayers are often presented with kavanot (special devotional forms, meanings, and…
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Anonymous
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Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
(Istanbul, Turkey)
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1734
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This Haggadah, decorated in the Ashkenazic tradition, was copied in northern Italy. As is traditional for Ashkenazic Haggadahs, illustrations appear in the margins and frame the text. At the top left…
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Artist Unknown
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1502
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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
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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
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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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1969