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The Jewish people did not begin to philosophize because of an irresistible urge to do so. They received philosophy from outside sources, and the history of Jewish philosophy is a history of the…
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Julius Guttmann
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Berlin, Weimar Republic (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1933
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Siona Benjamin
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2000
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Why is it that human beings encounter so many problems in life? Why are we beset with war and racism, political and ethnic conflicts, disharmony with our environment, and shattering events in our…
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Tamar Frankiel
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Los Angeles, United States of America
Date:
2001
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To be human is to remember. To lose memory is to lose a piece of ourselves. To lose all of memory is one of the great human tragedies; some part (though surely not all) of the divine light within us…
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Arthur Green
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
2002
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There are faces that God created to enchant you at first glance. Adore me, the face proclaims, and you adore it without knowing…
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Sholem Aleichem
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New York City, United States of America (New York, United States of America)
Date:
1915
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Zalman Schachter-Shalomi
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New York, United States of America
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1956–1966
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How many know
the number of creatures is endless?
So many know,
only a gasp in their questions is possible.
All that fullness—
of wounds that won’t scar over.
pain’s grillework
persisting in…
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Michael Heller
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1997
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Over the past twenty years the topic of chaos theory has moved from the blackboards of theoretical physics to the language of popular culture. In particular, the so…
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Michael Berg
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Wilmington, United States of America
Date:
2001
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Against the setting sun, in the fields near a kevutzah in Palestine, a group of young halutzim are dancing. All day long they have worked hard on the land. The morrow brings another day of…
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Corinne Chochem, Muriel Roth
Places:
Newark, United States of America
Date:
1941
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The Cabalist:Sexton, light the candles. [The Sextonlights each man’s candle. The Cabalistadvances slowly to The Girl, who stands slackly, her body making small occasional jerking movements, apparently…
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Paddy Chayefsky
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1959