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In our past lie the answers to all the problems that our present time raises, and in it also lie the keys to the secret gates of our future. [ . . . ]
Onto ground already prepared since the time of…
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Samuel Peltyn
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1885
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This introduction will speak about how important the person is through the Torah. One may read them, since there are many teachings with intentions inside. The teaching of the Lord is…
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Shalom Italia, Jacob Ashkenazi of Janov
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Janov, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Janów Lubelski, Poland)
Date:
1622
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Far, far from the paved roads and broad ways, far, far from the ordinary shtetls, stood isolated villages that had a different sky over them and a different sun.
The God of heaven in His mercy made…
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Hillel Zeitlin
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Warsaw, Second Polish Republic (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1919
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Although he himself would not recite “for the sake of the unification,” in keeping with the ruling of the Gaon—the Noda bi-Yehudah [R. Ezekiel Landau]—he was occasionally jealous of those who say it.…
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Simon Sofer
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Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
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ca. 1870
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May he be written and sealed immediately for good, long life—the honored rabbi, the splendid gentleman, the sharp and erudite, God-fearing, distinguished, may his name be honored, our teacher, R…
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Ḥayim Soloveitchik
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1900
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Indeed, at a time when Israel was settled on their soil, in the land of Israel, the agricultural dimension of the holidays, their relation to the field, that is to say, their material aspect, was a…
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Aaron Samuel Tamares
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1911–1912
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There are facts of such an overwhelming power that even the most stubborn opinion must yield to them. Such a fact is the origin of Judaism in the midst of rude surroundings, like a vigorous…
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Abraham Geiger
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Frankfort, German Confederation (Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
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1864
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One who exchanges good for bad and bad for good, and says that transgressions are really virtuous deeds, and that it is by this means that one can bring the Will of the Creator to fruition—such an…
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Ezekiel Landau
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1760