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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1879
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A sealed Torah was given to us; it is doubtless a Torah of Truth but it is disguised. Every day the Holy One, blessed be He, renews those who study it for its own sake and they find a new taste in it…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
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1809
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The purpose in view was, as may easily be gathered from the essays themselves, to bring under the notice of the English public a type of men produced by the Synagogue of the…
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Solomon Schechter
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Cambridge, United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
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1896
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The Birth of the Ba‘al Shem Tov
One of the greatest phenomena, running like a thread throughout the spiritual history of the Jewish people, is mysticism, a remnant of ancient mythology, which could…
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Avraham Kahana
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Zhitomir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
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1900
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The yearning to modernize the yeshiva and give it the appearance of a seminary grew considerably in the hearts of our scholars; but, regretfully, they used whatever filth…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1888
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So that the truth may not be lacking, the honorable small committee, may God preserve it, considered it their duty to inscribe in a book that which was not written regarding the ordination of his…
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The Jewish Community of Mantua
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Mantua, Duchy of Mantua (Mantova, Italy)
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1638
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Lo! I, the insignificant Joshua Falk, son of my Master, my father, the honorable R. Alexander ha-Kohen of blessed memory, was once young and am now aged (Psalms 37:25), and all my life I grew up among…
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Joshua Falk
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Lvov, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (Lviv, Ukraine)
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1606
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- Jews hold the Sabbath, above all other feasts, with the greatest veneration on account of it being named so often in the Scripture and being ordered…
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Leone Modena
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Venice, Republic of Venice (Venice, Italy)
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1637
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Thus said Hananiah Eliyakim, son of our honorable teacher, R. Asael Refael (may the memory of the righteous be for a blessing) Rieti, from the city of Siena:
Will not God seek this out (Psalms 44:22…
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Hananiah Eliakim Rieti
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Luzzara, Duchy of Modena and Reggio (Luzzara, Italy)
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1648
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Ezekiel Katzenellenbogen (ca. 1670–1749) was a rabbi in Altona. His gravestone bears a relief of open books and is inscribed with the titles of his works, each playing on a scriptural phrase involving…
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Altona, Habsburg Empire (Altona, Germany)
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1749