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Contributor:
Ödön Lechner
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Bratislava, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1913
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The reason for this is that if they see Torah scholars, and those who repair the breaches in Jewish religious practice, voiding the Torah in accordance with the exigencies of time and place, they will…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1810
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And likewise I say: Whoever mingles teachings of Kabbalah with rulings of halakhah is liable for kilayim—sowing a forbidden mixture of seeds, “Lest the fullness of the seed you have sown be forfeited”…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1835
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I have written this down in connection with all that befell us during that year five thousand five hundred and sixty-nine [1809] here, in our holy community of Pressburg. Now an omen of this had…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1809
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Throughout the duration of the exile of Israel, Jews worshiped God in awe, and from the time that freedom was granted to them and the exile of the body was made easier, the exile of the soul increased…
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Shaul Brach
Date:
1911
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A sealed Torah was given to us; it is doubtless a Torah of Truth but it is disguised. Every day the Holy One, blessed be He, renews those who study it for its own sake and they find a new taste in it…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1809
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The Hasid praises the Almighty on the right hand, and the unbeliever tosses away and truncates the principles of faith on the left, while the Torah scholar, standing in the center, maintains silence…
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Moses Sofer
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Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
ca. 1820s
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Indeed, in the countries where we reside, where the gentile women walk about bareheaded, but our mothers did not go out like that and were most careful on that score, concerned as they were about…
Contributor:
Moses Sofer
Places:
Pressburg, Austrian Empire (Bratislava, Slovakia)
Date:
1839