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May he be written and sealed immediately for good, long life—the honored rabbi, the splendid gentleman, the sharp and erudite, God-fearing, distinguished, may his name be honored, our teacher, R…
Contributor:
Ḥayim Soloveitchik
Places:
Brisk, Russian Empire (Brest, Belarus)
Date:
1900
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Although he himself would not recite “for the sake of the unification,” in keeping with the ruling of the Gaon—the Noda bi-Yehudah [R. Ezekiel Landau]—he was occasionally jealous of those who say it.…
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Simon Sofer
Places:
Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1870
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One who exchanges good for bad and bad for good, and says that transgressions are really virtuous deeds, and that it is by this means that one can bring the Will of the Creator to fruition—such an…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1760
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In our past lie the answers to all the problems that our present time raises, and in it also lie the keys to the secret gates of our future. [ . . . ]
Onto ground already prepared since the time of…
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Samuel Peltyn
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1885