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Cornell Capa took this picture of boys learning Torah or the Hebrew alphabet at a time when Hasidic survivors of the Holocaust were just beginning to rebuild their communities. Brooklyn, New York was…
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Cornell Capa
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Brooklyn, United States of America
Date:
1955
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The main point is that, since we are all irremediably inadequate to know the essence of God’s nature, all names (attempts to capture the Divine essence) are metaphors.
We can encourage children to “do…
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Saul Wachs
Places:
Melrose Park, United States of America
Date:
1998
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The heder was in the basement. It was a dark, damp room with a low ceiling. There were two windows on the ground level. In the middle of the room, there was a long wooden table covered with books, two…
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Doiv Ber Levin
Places:
Petrograd, USSR (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1932
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1. What religion do you profess?
I believe in the Mosaic Religion, which was revealed by the Lord; and I esteem the same as the true, pure, and unmixed word of God.
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Isaac Leeser
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1839