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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if there is some…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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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)
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1943
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I cannot refrain from relating an amazing, true story that I heard from that mouth of sanctity, the most outstanding disciple of our Holy Master, the rebbe, my dear friend—may…
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Israel ben Samuel of Shklov
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Safed, Ottoman Empire (Safed, Israel)
Date:
1836
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Reform Judaism is the second historical distortion of the Jewish religion. For the service of God through Torah and Mitzvoth as the end of religion, the Reform movement substitutes an end the Jewish…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1975
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What is the testimony that proves my guilt? The punishment itself. Although Naomi says that she must have been guilty, it’s as if she doesn’t really know what she is guilty of. It’s only when things…
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1992
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This issue was the focus of controversy in eretz yisrael, and the whole land . . . quaked with the…
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Ben-Zion Hai Uziel
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Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine (Tel Aviv, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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Living in accordance with the Halakhah, demarcating a sphere of the sacred through halakhic practice—is this the ultimate end of the religious life? The answer is both yes and no. On the one hand…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1953
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[…] The question is merely theoretical today. There is, at present, no negotiating partner, as the Arabs are demanding the return of the entire Land of Israel, including Jerusalem, to which all the…
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Ovadia Yosef
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1989
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. . . We believe that our outlook on social life in general is more refined and purer than that of contemporary civilized nations. Our family is sacred to us in a manner more profound than [is the…
Contributor:
Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1920