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Through narrative, poetry, law, and prayer, the Bible conditions its readers to feel reverence for nature, enjoins restraint in the exploitation of natural resources for human needs, elicits awe in…
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David M. Gordis
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Albany, United States of America
Date:
2001
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February 9, 2000
Dear Ammi,
It was a pleasure meeting you in person last week. […]
I wonder what the staff and the other patrons thought about the two of us sitting there, me with my beard, peyot…
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Ammiel Hirsch, Ammiel Hirsch
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New York, United States of America
Date:
2002
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The object of this publication, an Ethiopian text, is taken from a book of Falasha prayers which I acquired from Dabtarà Bàrok, a Jewish man of letters, in Adenkato. It contains the…
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Jacques Faïtlovitch
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1906
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When one comes to Lublin he should imagine to himself that Lublin is Eretz Israel, that the courtyard of the study house is Jerusalem, that the study house is the Temple Mount, that his apartment is…
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Uri of Strelisk
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Strzeliska Nowe, Austrian Empire
(Novi Strilyshcha, Ukraine)
Warsaw, Kingdom of Poland
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911
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Excerpts from The Death of Moses, a legendary account of the death of Moses from the literature of the Beta Israel community, in Arabic and Ge’ez, researched by scholar Jacques Faïtlovich in Ethiopia.
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
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1906
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1. We have now obtained a preliminary articulation of reason and religion; we turn now to the sources of Judaism, out of which the religion of reason should be derived. We ought…
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Hermann Cohen
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1919
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The wilderness is not just a desert through which we wandered for forty years. It is a way of being. A place that demands being open to the flow of life around you. A place that demands being…
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Lawrence Kushner
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San Francisco, United States of America
Date:
1977
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The mystery of prayer on the days of Rosh Hashanah presents itself with characteristic familiarity: it reveals itself to those who want to fulfill it, and eludes those who want only to know it.
Prayer…
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Berlin, Nazi Germany
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1936
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Gentlemen, today is the seventh of Adar, the anniversary of the death of Moses our teacher, of blessed memory. We have gathered in…
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Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
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1939
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And thus it came to pass, and this was the beginning . . . Heavens tell me, why?
Tell me, why this, O why? What have we done to merit such disgrace?
The earth is dumb and…
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Yitshak Katzenelson
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(Vittel, France)
Date:
1944