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It was explained earlier in part 2 that faith is [like a] possession that is, it is a possession that belongs to man’s soul, the way knowledge belongs to the soul…
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Judah ben Eleazar
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Kashan, Safavid Empire (Kashan, Iran)
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1686
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The peace of the Almighty God be with you and with all those who in their faith hope for and desire His grace and mercy.
Dear and good friends and brethren of Israel.
In your letter, you complain…
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Gershom Katz, Ḥayyim Schwarz, Josel of Rosheim
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Holy Roman Empire (Alsace, France)
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1539
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The mystery of prayer on the days of Rosh Hashanah presents itself with characteristic familiarity: it reveals itself to those who want to fulfill it, and eludes those who want only to know it.
Prayer…
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Berlin, Nazi Germany (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1936
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Gentlemen, today is the seventh of Adar, the anniversary of the death of Moses our teacher, of blessed memory. We have gathered in…
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Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
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Shamloy, Kingdom of Hungary (Berehove, Ukraine)
Date:
1939
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My own efforts to wrestle with the Ishmael story came from my fierce fears and hopes for modern Israel, my urgency to discover how Israel could live in peace, my efforts to talk with angry, fearful…
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Arthur Waskow
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Washington, United States of America
Date:
1978
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I want to tell you a good story that I heard on the first day of Succos. Someone told me he heard it from his father, a Hasid, and just forgive me, because I have to throw a lot of names at you, but…
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Shlomo Carlebach
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1985
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The predictions of an unbridgeable and cataclysmic rupture within the Jewish community agitate all of us who love and care for and worry about our Jewish people and its future. The twin issues of…
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Norman Lamm
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1986
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I am an Orthodox rabbi and I am gay. For a long while I denied, rejected, railed against this truth. The life story that I had wanted—wife, kids, and a family that modeled Torah and hesed—turned out…
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Steven Greenberg
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Berkeley, United States of America
Date:
1993
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The whole of chapter three and part of four are taken up with the Divine call to Moses, his preparations for undertaking the mission, the overcoming of all his hesitations, from the historic promise…
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Nehama Leibowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1993
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We affirm the reality and oneness of God, even as we may differ in our understanding of the Divine presence.
We affirm that the Jewish people is bound to God by an eternal בְּרִית (b’rit), covenant…
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Central Conference of American Rabbis
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1999