Hut ha-meshulash (Threefold Cord)
The Hasid praises the Almighty on the right hand, and the unbeliever tosses away and truncates the principles of faith on the left, while the Torah scholar, standing in the center, maintains silence and mocks both!
Translated by David E. Cohen.
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Moses Sofer, "Hut ha-meshulash (Threefold Cord)" (Manuscript, Pressburg, ca. 1820s). Published as: Shelomoh Sofer, Sefer Ḥuṭ ha-Meshulash, vol. 2 (Drohoviṭsh: bi-defus A. H. Zupniḳ, 1908), 100 (footnote), https://hebrewbooks.org/29070.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 6.
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