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“Why did God reveal the account of Creation to Israel? Because they said ‘We will do’ before ‘and we will understand’ (Exod. 24:7).”
This may be understood in the light of…
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Dov Ber of Mezritsh
Places:
Mezhirichi, Russian Empire (Velyki Mezhyrichi, Ukraine)
Date:
1781
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Grieve not at all on my departure for the Land of Israel (may it be built and established!). You gave me indeed a firm promise to that effect. And why should you be anxious? Many men travel years long…
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Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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ca. 1797
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O Russians, you who love your fellow men! You would shudder from the bottoms of your kind hearts if you saw the effect of that terrible accusation which Jews who were eyewitnesses to the unjustified…
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Lev Nevakhovich
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St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1803
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Fishke started to narrate in his lisping, stammering way.
“You seem to know I married the blind orphan girl, and after the wedding we lived well, like a Jewish couple should. I think I kept my part of…
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Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim), Sholem Yankev Abramovitsh (Mendele Mokher Sforim)
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Berdichev, Russian Empire (Berdychiv, Ukraine)
Date:
1869
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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
Places:
Satanov, Russian Empire (Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1809
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“One morning—it was the fourth day of Hanukkah (the holiday of the Maccabees), when we were readying ourselves to celebrate the victory of our heroic ancestors, which was the capture of Antioch—the…
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Osip Rabinovich
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1859
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Nachman ha-Kohen Bialsker
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Bielsk, Russian Empire (Bielsk Podlaski, Poland)
Date:
1862
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June 1, 1918
Jewish music is the face of a frozen sphinx which, after the millennium of its antiquity, is still only on the path to discovering its secret, is only now waking to life…
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Aleksander Krein
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Russian Empire (Russia, Russia)
Date:
1918
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Deeply respected Niger,
I ask you to endure me in Russian.
I want to express to you my happiness that we are approaching the time of the new Jewish book, a book created with love towards [the thing]…
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El Lissitzky
Places:
Moscow, Russian Empire (Moscow, Russia)
Date:
1918
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You have a simplistic picture of a pogrom. A well-off and respected shopkeeper lives a proud and happy life. All at once, angels of destruction pop out of nowhere and within minutes they…
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Alexander Kapel
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1911