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Now, aside from the fact that it is altogether impossible to interpret the matter of tzimtzum literally, for that would attribute corporeal events to the…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
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1797
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Indeed, what is necessary is precisely to “cast away the mind,” because it is necessary to cast aside all rational processes and serve God simply. This is because a person’s deeds should outweigh his…
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Nachman of Bratslav
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Bratslav, Russian Empire (Bratslav, Ukraine)
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1809
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Devekut requires that there be no impediment between man and God; only then is devekut possible. As in the parable of the Besht, it is impossible to join silver coins together…
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Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk
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Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
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1814
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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
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I have observed that on account of our many sins these days, very many Jews have…
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Chofetz Chaim
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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
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1897
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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…
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Ḥayim Soloveitchik
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Brisk, Russian Empire (Brest, Belarus)
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1900
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‘Arukh ha-shulḥan, oraḥ ḥayim § 75:7And now come and let us shout out against the licentiousness of our generation, on account of our many sins. For it has now been many years that the daughters of…
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‘Arukh Ha-shulḥan (Yeḥiel Mikhl Epstein)
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Novogrudok, Russian Empire (Navahrudak, Belarus)
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1903
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Bearing in mind:
that the course of capitalist development in those states in which Jews reside is not creating for them the kind of economic conditions that could lead to the…
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The Bund
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1905
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Among the living nations of the earth the Jews occupy the position of a nation long since dead. With the loss of their fatherland, the Jews lost their independence and fell into a state of decay…
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Leon Pinsker
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Russia)
Date:
1882
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We recite the blessing “Who performed miracles for our forefathers, etc.” on Hanukkah and Purim, but we do not do so on Passover, even though the Exodus…
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Levi Isaac of Berdichev
Places:
Slavuta, Russian Empire (Slavuta, Ukraine)
Date:
1798