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[…] I will be arguing that, better to understand the God-idea and more effectively overcome the obstacles to the acceptance of God in our lives, we must view theology with a new perception. Elohut…
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Harold M. Schulweis
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Encino, United States of America
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1975
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Rosh Hodesh is celebrated only eleven times a year. Tishre, the month Rosh Hodesh coincides with Rosh Hashanah, is omitted. If Rosh Hodesh falls on two days, the ceremony may…
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Arlene Agus
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New York, United States of America
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1976
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These are the words of the covenant as a statute for Jacob, as an everlasting covenant for Israel; the Almighty spoke but once—and He will never alter His law—through the Torah and the ruling which…
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Bet Din of Hamburg
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Altona, Kingdom of Denmark (Altona, Germany)
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1819
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Upon you, great ones, the rebbes of the Hasidim, who follow the path of the Ba‘al Shem Tov, and of whose glorious name they boast and by…
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Eliezer Zweifel
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Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
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1873
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Before she labored, she was delivered;
Before her pangs came, she bore a son!
—Isaiah 66:7
Fear not, worm of Jacob,
O people of Israel,
For I will help you.
—Isaiah 41:14
The hard, painful hour…
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Fanny Neuda
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Loschitz, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1854
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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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Our master, the holy rabbi, told a tale of the Ba‘al Shem Tov (may his memory be for a blessing to the life of the world to come!). There was once a matter involving great danger to the human life of…
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Reuben Zak
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Ustyluh, Russian Empire (Ustyluh, Ukraine)
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1906
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Rosario, Argentina, June 16, 1914
Your Eminence,
Permit me to bother you in the name of the Jewish collective of Rosario, because of a divergence of opinion arising between us, about which we desire…
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David Pisanté
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Rosario, Argentina
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1914
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See, I have imparted to you laws and rules, as the Lord my God has commanded me, for you to abide by in the land that you are about to enter and occupy. Observe them faithfully, for that…
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On the twenty-fourth day of this month, the Israelites assembled, fasting, in sackcloth, and with earth upon them. Those of the stock of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood…
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Persian Period, 5th–4th Century BCE