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To understand this parable [of David and Jeroboam in b. Sanhedrin 102], we must say that Rabba bar bar Ḥana also describes people of two different kinds, whose deeds and way of life are different from…
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Joseph Meir Levin
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Cincinnati, United States of America
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1916–1917
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§181. In contradistinction to ritual holiness we have what has been called ethical holiness. The former is merely symbolic of an order of existence higher…
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Moritz Lazarus
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1898
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As a general rule, however, the spirit and illuminating power of the zaddik affect and inspire only those of his generation who are favorably disposed toward him. They have…
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Isaac Judah Yehiel Safrin of Komarno
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Komarno, Austrian Empire (Komarno, Ukraine)
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19th century
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These lessons (of which the first forty-seven paragraphs were already published in the Rivista israelitica) were written in 1832 for the use of those youth who, upon completing their primary and…
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Samuel David Luzzatto
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Padua, Kingdom of Italy (Padova, Italy)
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1832
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While man explores, with curious eye,
The works of nature and of art,
He passeth real wisdom by,
Nor cares to read the human heart.
A stranger to…
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Penina Moïse
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Charleston, United States of America
Date:
1867
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In view of the wide divergence of opinion and of the conflicting ideas prevailing in Judaism today, we, as representatives of Reform Judaism in America, in continuation of the work begun at…
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The Conference of Reform Rabbis
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Pittsburgh, United States of America
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1885
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Happy is the man who has not followed the counsel of the wicked,
or taken the path of sinners,
or joined the company of the insolent;
rather, the teaching of the Lord is his delight,
and he studies…
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On the eve of the Civil War, a Southern rabbi explains why the Jewish tradition requires an antislavery position. His congregants disagree vehemently with his stance.
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David Einhorn
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Baltimore, United States of America
Date:
1861
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We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons:
The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
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Isaac Bekhor Amarachi, Joseph ben Meir Sason
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
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1843
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It is written: All the men of Israel . . . knit together as one man (Judg. 20:11). Just as one man is composed of many limbs, and when they become separated it affects the heart…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Liozna, Russian Empire (Lyozna, Belarus)
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Late 18th–early 19th century