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40. When the tradition concerning the opposition of the sea and its confederates to the will of the Creator of the…
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Umberto Cassuto
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1943
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In every village in the region, in every farmhouse you’d meet them, the Boyars. The first Boyar, family legend had it, had settled in the Polesian forests many generations ago. His name had been Ezra…
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Eli Shechtman
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1965
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We, the entire assembly of the congregation of Israel, believe that the Torah that is in our possession today is exactly the same as was written by Moses our master, peace be on him. From then until…
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Moses Mendelssohn
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1783
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I heard from the venerable rabbinic scholar, R. Nahman, an interpretation of the words of [the Besht] that one should intend in every word that he utters submissiveness…
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Jacob Joseph of Polnoye
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Polonnoye, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Polonne, Ukraine)
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1780
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The little sons of Abraham took shells
And floated boats made out of mother-pearl;
Then Isaac leaned in fear on Ishmael.
And mournfully sang the two black swans
Quite gloomy notes…
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Else Lasker-Schüler
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1913
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Jeremiah:Not now the time for beginnings. The end draws nigh.
The Mother:It is time! It is time! Long since have you grown to manhood. The house has need of a wife, and of children to raise up seed…
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Stefan Zweig
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Vienna, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1917
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The object of this publication, an Ethiopian text, is taken from a book of Falasha prayers which I acquired from Dabtarà Bàrok, a Jewish man of letters, in Adenkato. It contains the…
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Jacques Faïtlovitch
Places:
Paris, French Republic (Paris, France)
Date:
1906
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With a brief commentary and some Tosafot (additions) which were balanced, refined, and written by the Torah scholar, the great rabbi, R. Elijah ben Judah Loeb, who dwells in the land of Fulda, based…
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Elijah Fulda
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Fulda, Holy Roman Empire (Fulda, Germany)
Date:
1710
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El Lissitzky
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1917
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The first lesson addresses the question which every enlightened reader will raise concerning creation: It is told in our Torah that it indeed took place in seven days…
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Eliezer Ashkenazi
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Poznan, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Poznan, Poland)
Date:
1583