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This is the statute of the Torah . . . זאת חקת התורה—It should say זאת חקת הפרה (“this is the statute of the heifer”), as it says elsewhere “this is the statute of the Passover” (Exodus 12:43)! And if…
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Ephraim Solomon Luntshitz
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Prague, Holy Roman Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
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1610
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More than twenty-five centuries have passed since an anonymous Jewish poet wrote an elaborate and lengthy prayer that included this exclamation:O how I love your teaching!It is my study all day long (…
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Adele Berlin, Marc Zvi Brettler
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College Park, United States of America
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2004
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Why does a book on Jewish philosophy begin with a discussion of revelation? First, because it is revelation that creates Judaism as a religion. […] Without God’s…
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Neil Gillman
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Philadelphia, United States of America
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1990
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When a human being builds a palace, he does not build it according to his own wisdom, but according to the wisdom of a craftsman. And the craftsman does not build according to his own wisdom, rather…
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Nosson Scherman
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New York, United States of America
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1993
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In the book of Ruth we read an extraordinary expression of love between two women, spoken by a daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law. The text has often been read as a reflection of Judaism’s position…
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Deborah Dash Moore
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Ann Arbor, United States of America
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1999
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The fact that at a crossroads in Jewish history two “fathers of the world” met, men who were to become trailblazers in religious philosophy, is of major importance. The…
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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New York, United States of America
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1962
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A Civil War–era Jewish leader defends the institution of slavery in the South based on his reading of the Hebrew Bible.
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Morris Jacob Raphall
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New York City, United States of America
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1861
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It has been a belief universally shared by Israelites of all times that the Pentateuch was exclusively and entirely authored and redacted by the great prophet Moses; only the last chapter of…
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Samuel David Luzzatto
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Padua, Kingdom of Italy (Padova, Italy)
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1829
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If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…
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Walter Benjamin
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
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1916
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I have realized, and my attention has been drawn to the fact that many people say that the salvation of women is not on the same level as that of men, for their [women’s] knowledge is limited. They…
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Gedaliah Ibn Yaḥya
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ca. 1550