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Indeed, what is necessary is precisely to “cast away the mind,” because it is necessary to cast aside all rational processes and serve God simply. This is because a person’s deeds should outweigh his…
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Nachman of Bratslav
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Bratslav, Russian Empire (Bratslav, Ukraine)
Date:
1809
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Our maskilim did not understand this, and that is why the shtrayml triumphed over them. In the end all of them returned to tradition. Peretz no longer laughs like he used to. He immersed himself in…
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Ya‘akov Ze’ev Latski-Bertholdi
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1914
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“I am the Lord your God” [the first of the 10 commandments, namely, to believe in God] precedes [the second commandment] “You shall have no other Gods,” for through complete contemplation of “I am the…
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Tsadok ha-Kohen of Lublin
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Lublin, Russian Empire (Lublin, Poland)
Date:
1902
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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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Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1885
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Indeed, our human situation now stands on such a low level that we need not look either to intellectual or to outside factors to account for its stumbling blocks or confusions. Nowadays, if one is in…
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Yoyzl Horowitz
Places:
Novogrudok, Russian Empire (Navahrudak, Belarus)
Date:
1914
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Is this the Jew of the East? Is he an old man, who, almost entirely removed from the present day and certainly removed from the future, lives a life that is limited to the most oppressed and narrowest…
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Arnold Zweig
Places:
Kaunas, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1918