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I was privileged to visit Lublin with my late father when I was a boy of nine, and I saw his [the Seer’s] face illuminated like torches. And when he opened the door to recite Ke-gavnah [An Aramaic…
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Isaac Judah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno
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1815
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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
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Slavuta, Russian Empire
(Slavuta, Ukraine)
Date:
1798
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He burst into laughter that immediately frightened him. Just then he passed the “Cold Synagogue”—a synagogue in which, it was said, the dead came to say their prayers on Saturday nights, wearing white…
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Sholem Aleichem
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(Ukraine, Ukraine)
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1900
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My Astarte, won’t you tell me: from where
Did you come to us in this valley? Was it in the hand of a merchant (Canaanite) of Sidon
From [the] city stronghold of the sea, through waves of agate…
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Saul Tschernikovsky
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Kirikovka, Russian Empire
(Kirikovka, Ukraine)
Date:
1910
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When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
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Isaac Ber Levinzon
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Kremenets, Russian Empire
(Kremenets, Ukraine)
Date:
1833
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Upon you, great ones, the rebbes of the Hasidim, who follow the path of the Ba‘al Shem Tov, and of whose glorious name they boast and by…
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Eliezer Zweifel
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1873
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Our master, the holy rabbi, told a tale of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (may his memory be for a blessing to the life of the world to come!). There was once a matter involving great danger to the human life of…
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Reuben Zak
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Ustyluh, Russian Empire
(Ustyluh, Ukraine)
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1906
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The city of N. is built in three rings. First ring: the marketplace at the very center. Second: surrounding the market, the great city proper with its many houses, streets, byways, back…
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Der Nister
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1939
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“Blessed are you, God, God of our ancestors, the great, awesome, and holy God. You have bequeathed human understanding (da‘at ha-enoshit) to humanity. You have gifted us with the knowledge of your…
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Menachem Mendel Lefin
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Satanov, Russian Empire
(Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1809
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In order to understand what is katnut (“smallness”) and what is gadlut (“greatness”), consider this example: If one studies Torah without understanding, he is in a state of…
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Ba‘al Shem Tov
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Międzyboż, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Medzhybizh, Ukraine)
Date:
1793