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We are speaking of the Jewish Renaissance. By this we understand the peculiar and basically inexplicable phenomenon of the progressive rejuvenation of the Jewish people in language, customs, and art…
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Martin Buber
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1905
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Indeed, what is necessary is precisely to “cast away the mind,” because it is necessary to cast aside all rational processes and serve God simply. This is because a person’s deeds should outweigh his…
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Nachman of Bratslav
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Bratslav, Russian Empire
(Bratslav, Ukraine)
Date:
1809
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What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
Places:
Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
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1910–1918
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As Yiddish poetry grew more modern, even modernistic, as it grew freer in rhythm, subtler in tonality, more artful and sophisticated in imagery, it also grew more Jewish—I was almost going to say more…
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Abraham Tabachnik
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1950
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The Jews in Poland still have a very demanding and holy task ahead of themselves. Or, to be more exact, they have a holy, lofty, most important and most responsible mission. Hasidism was born in…
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Hillel Zeitlin
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire
(Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1916