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Noble-mindedness is a very fine character trait in the soul of man, and it extends in many directions: primarily in three, which are, noble-mindedness in wisdom, noble-mindedness in power, and noble…
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Naphtali Herts Wessely
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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ca. 1780s
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The telos (takhlit) of man’s activities, in the aspect (behinah) of having will and choice, is the ultimate human good (ha’hatslahah ha’enoshi’it). This excellence necessarily comes after the…
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Solomon Maimon
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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1792
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Since Judaism is law, the doubts of the Jewish youth are not an evil, at least per se they are not an evil. If Judaism were only instruction, the doubts raised by the instruction would…
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Isaac Breuer
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1910
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We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1905
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Altona, 24 Ab 5603
Chief Rabbi!
Messrs. Adler and Fuld, members of your congregation, asked for my opinion, from the Jewish-religious perspective…
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Jacob Ettlinger
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1844
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A passage in chapter 22 of the third Book of Moses was destined to become the starting point for one of the most peculiar religious concepts of the Jewish people. It reads: “Observe my laws and…
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Samuel Hugo Bergmann
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Prague, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1913
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So, after all, we have arrived again in a situation where we must confess. We younger ones had felt entitled to the hope that we would gradually succeed in living integrated into the “nation of Kant”…
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Hermann Cohen
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Marburg, German Empire (Marburg, Germany)
Date:
1880
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What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1910–1918
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The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1911
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If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1916