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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
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Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1870
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He looked, and there was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep lying down by it, for from that well the flocks were watered. But the stone was large on the mouth of the well. When…
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Sefat Emet (Judah Leib Alter)
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Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)
Date:
1905
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The communal treasurer stands on guard at the entrance to the rabbi’s home to make inquiry concerning every invalid or cripple, and by what name he is called. One can hear the noise of the people as…
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David of Makev
Places:
Maków, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Maków Mazowiecki, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1798
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In the blessing “With a great love hast Thou loved us,” we say, “and unify our heart to love and fear Thy Name.” This is apparently in contradiction to the principle…
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Elimelech of Lizhensk
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Leżajsk, Habsburg Empire (Leżajsk, Poland)
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As in the case of Israel and the Torah, so in the case of G-d there are the apparent or conceivable attributes, and the hidden or inconceivable attributes.What is conceivable of the Divine Being is…
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Joseph Isaac Schneersohn
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1936
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When Rabbi Zusya went to suffer the exile in Germany, he came to a city of Reform Jews. When they saw his ways, they mocked him and thought he was crazy. When he came into the synagogue, some of them…
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Elimelech of Lizhensk, Zusya of Annopol (Hanipoli)
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Hannopil’, Russian Empire (Hannopil', Ukraine)
Date:
1902
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The Jews in Poland still have a very demanding and holy task ahead of themselves. Or, to be more exact, they have a holy, lofty, most important and most responsible mission. Hasidism was born in…
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Hillel Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1916