Showing Results 31 - 40 of 53
Public Access
Text
The reading of Tetsaveh on [Shabbat] Zakhor, [the Sabbath immediately preceding Purim]:
A remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of remembrance for the children of Israel; stones of…
Contributor:
Israel de Curiel
Places:
Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
16th Century
Categories:
Restricted
Text
To explain the verse with which we started, we will set forth another thesis. It is a custom in Israel—and custom has the status of Torah—for preachers to travel from city to city to rebuke the people…
Contributor:
Zeraḥ Eidlitz
Places:
Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1766
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I heard from the venerable rabbinic scholar, R. Nahman, an interpretation of the words of [the Besht] that one should intend in every word that he utters submissiveness…
Contributor:
Jacob Joseph of Polnoye
Places:
Polonnoye, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polonne, Ukraine)
Date:
1780
Categories:
Restricted
Text
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…
Contributor:
Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1814
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A psalm of David.
The Lord is my shepherd;
I lack nothing.
He makes me lie down in green pastures;
He leads me to water in places of repose;
He renews my life;
He guides me in right paths
as…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The Lord is king!
Let the earth exult,
the many islands rejoice!
Dense clouds are around Him,
righteousness and justice are the base of His
throne.
Fire is His vanguard,
burning His foes on every…
Places:
Date:
Biblical Period
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Jewish thought, having always been in a vital relation to Christian scholarship—sometimes, as in scholasticism, the influencing part, sometimes, as in the 19th century, the influenced part—has…
Contributor:
Franz Rosenzweig
Places:
Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1914
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
A male child becomes obligated to observe the commandments at the age of thirteen years and one day. Therefore, on the first day of his fourteenth year, a father grasps his son in his hand and says,…
Contributor:
Ben Ish Ḥai
Places:
Baghdad, Ottoman Empire (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
ca. 1894–1898
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
3 Shevat 5663 [January 31, 1903]
From all the Zionist essays emerge that which we see with our very eyes: their entire purpose and effort is to instill the supposition among Jews that the Torah and…
Contributor:
Sholom Dov Ber Schneerson
Places:
Lubavitch, Russian Empire (Lyubavichi, Russia)
Date:
1903
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Sensitive Content
Concerning the matter of prostitutes from the daughters of Israel—far be it from our straight paths—who dedicate a new ark curtain or Torah scroll cover, it is permissible from a legal point of view…
Contributor:
Raphael Aaron Ben Simeon
Places:
Alexandria, Egypt
Date:
1907/8