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In which it is explained that the essence of the Torah is the performance of the commandments, not intellectual knowledge; and also the reason why it is called the Talmud…
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Ḥayim ben Bezalel
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Friedberg, Holy Roman Empire
(Friedberg, Germany)
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1588
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A furious epistle against [Juan de] Prado, a philosopher-doctor who doubted or did not believe in the truth of the divine scripture and sought to cover up his maliciousness with the feigned…
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Isaac Orobio de Castro
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1664
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Reason:Righteousness, beloved of my soul, may your heart be of good courage. Gird yourself with vigor, for, the further salvation seems to be…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Early 18th Century–1740
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This rediscovery of Judaism at the end of the end of philosophy, at the tertium quid, the middle of ethics, occurs at the deepest difficulty of both philosophy and Judaism, where they are equally cast…
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Gillian Rose
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Oxford, United Kingdom
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1992
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The concept of a resurrected culture after Auschwitz is illusory and contradictory, and every construct that still comes into being has to pay a bitter price because of that. But since the world…
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Geoffrey H. Hartman
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New Haven, United States of America
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1997
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Struck out of dim fluctuant forces and shock of electrical vapour,
Repelled and attracted the atoms flashed mingling in union primeval,
And over the face of the waters far heaving…
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Mathilde Blind
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1889
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Alliance Israélite Universelle School of Crafts
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Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1901–1910
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Jacob Meyer de Haan
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1889–1892
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Ephraim Moses Lilien
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Basel, Switzerland
Date:
1901
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A. Leopold,
It would appear from your letter that you do not believe that art is a factor in civilization and progress. You are not the only one. One might agree with you that up to now no statue or…
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Sh. Yanovsky
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New York, United States of America
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1906