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In memory of my father, Salomón Motje Rozitchner.
What other eternity is there
if not that of knowing
you are eternally dead.
For Jews the choices are not just difficult. The revolution requires the…
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León Rozitchner
Date:
1968
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The kinnor, called in a foreign tongue arpa (harp), is a wooden instrument made in the likeness of a wide-open entrance without their being doors on it, and its upper threshold is broad and its lower…
Contributor:
Abraham Portaleone
Places:
Mantua, Duchy of Mantua
(Mantova, Italy)
Date:
1611
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What does the Voice of Auschwitz command?
Jews are forbidden to hand Hitler posthumous victories. They are commanded to survive as Jews, lest the Jewish people perish. They are commanded to remember…
Contributor:
Emil L. Fackenheim
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New York City, United States of America
(Toronto, Canada)
Date:
1969
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When macabre reality gnaws at a person’s soul, it is hard to devote oneself to psychological investigation, even of very pressing subjects. The event also seemed cut off from life, entirely academic…
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Szymon Draenger
Places:
Kraków, General Government
(Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1943
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In most of the current reflections on the relation between philosophy and society, it is somehow taken for granted that philosophy always possessed political or social status. According to F arabi…
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Leo Strauss
Places:
Chicago, United States of America
Date:
1952
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[The lessons a mother should give her son]: My son, you should know that before your body looked the way it does now, it was nothing. You were formed in my belly from the drops of fertility that came…
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David Attias
Places:
Livorno, Holy Roman Empire
(Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1778
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A crucial and fundamental principle is the proper rearing of children. The Torah has stated: And you shall teach them [the words of Torah] to your children (Deuteronomy 11:19), for that is the…
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Romeyn de Hooghe, Isaiah Horowitz
Places:
Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
(Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
ca. 1623