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The predictions of an unbridgeable and cataclysmic rupture within the Jewish community agitate all of us who love and care for and worry about our Jewish people and its future. The twin issues of…
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Norman Lamm
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New York, United States of America
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1986
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
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1767
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Anton Raphael Mengs
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Madrid, Spanish Empire
(Madrid, Spain)
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1770
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In the days when the chieftains ruled, there was a famine in the land; and a man of Bethlehem in Judah, with his wife and two sons, went to reside in the country of Moab. The man’s name…
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Persian Period, Late 6th–4th Century BCE
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An agent of the kahal who is charged with monitoring Jewish cases in the police and in giving gifts to officials is a Jewish middleman.
Jews utilize the art of the middleman not only in trade…
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Jacob Brafman
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1869
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Is your excessive talk beneficial to you? [ . . . ] And do you consider it proper that you peruse the [weekly Pentateuchal] portion twice in Hebrew and…
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Joseph Karo
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Safed, Ottoman Empire
(Safed, Israel)
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1530s
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At the gate of the inner courtyard, where the eunuchs and all of the great men of the kingdom were standing before the king, they were standing there, and Amira was sitting, and the aforementioned…
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Anonymous
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Adrianople, Ottoman Empire
(Edirne, Turkey)
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1671
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Time with his pointed shafts has hit my heart
and split my gut, laid open my entrails,
landed me a blow that will not heal,
knocked me down, left me in lasting pain.
Time wounded me…
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Judah Abravanel
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1503
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Miriam, Aristobolus and Dina.
Miriam:Mother!
Enter Alexandra, Miriam’s mother.
Alex:Your shouting will wake the dead. A little refinement, Miriam, you’re no longer a little girl.
Miriam:It…
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Edna Mazya
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Tel Aviv, Israel
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2000
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The Torah views the defection of one single Jewish soul from Judaism as the ultimate tragedy, for is not “one solitary Jewish life an entire world”? And an intermarriage is nothing…
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Nisson Wolpin
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Queens, United States of America
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1984