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The Central Conference of American Rabbis has on special occasions described the spiritual state of Reform Judaism. The centenaries of the founding of the Union of American Hebrew…
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Central Conference of American Rabbis
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New York, United States of America
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1976
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There is only one question which really matters: why do bad things happen to good people? All other theological conversation is intellectually diverting; somewhat like…
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Harold S. Kushner
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Natick, United States of America
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1981
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The main point is that, since we are all irremediably inadequate to know the essence of God’s nature, all names (attempts to capture the Divine essence) are metaphors.
We can encourage children to “do…
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Saul Wachs
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Melrose Park, United States of America
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1998
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I have been critical of the modern notions of the solitary self and self-validating universalism in the hope of permitting the consciousness of our particularity to…
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Eugene B. Borowitz
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New York, United States of America
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1991
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Why is it that human beings encounter so many problems in life? Why are we beset with war and racism, political and ethnic conflicts, disharmony with our environment, and shattering events in our…
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Tamar Frankiel
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
2001
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Our maskilim did not understand this, and that is why the shtrayml triumphed over them. In the end all of them returned to tradition. Peretz no longer laughs like he used to. He immersed himself in…
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Ya‘akov Ze’ev Latski-Bertholdi
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Vilna, Russian Empire
(Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1914
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54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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40. When the tradition concerning the opposition of the sea and its confederates to the will of the Creator of the…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine
(Jerusalem, Israel)
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1943
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Having laid out for the reader my thoughts about religion, revelation, and faith/belief, their manifold aim and their various components, I now consider…
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Saul Ascher
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia
(Berlin, Germany)
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1792
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There is a severe admonition addressed to every individual within Israel not to add any precept on his own initiative onto those precepts which are written in the Torah, and…
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Simhah Isaac ben Moses Lutski
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Lutsk, Russian Empire
(Lutsk, Ukraine)
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ca. 1750