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Artist Unknown
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Westheim, Holy Roman Empire
(Westheim, Germany)
Date:
ca. 1750
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This book consists of a descriptive account and twenty stories. The descriptive account speaks of the life of the Hasidim, a Jewish sect of eastern Europe which arose around the middle of…
Contributor:
Martin Buber
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Ravenna, German Empire
(Germany)
Date:
1907
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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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1933
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Other works by Loanz: Rinat dodim (1600); Mikhol yofi (1695); Aderet Eliyahu: perush ha-Zohar (1998).
Contributor:
Elijah Loanz
Places:
Wilhermsdorf, Holy Roman Empire
(Wilhermsdorf, Germany)
Date:
1734
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Artist Unknown
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ca. 1750
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May His great name be blessed! Before everything, it occurred to His simple will to create worlds, for there is no king without a people, as it is said: In the multitude of people is the…
Contributor:
Naphtali Bacharach
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Frankfurt am Main, Holy Roman Empire
(Frankfurt am Main, Germany)
Date:
1648
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A passage in chapter 22 of the third Book of Moses was destined to become the starting point for one of the most peculiar religious concepts of the Jewish people. It reads: “Observe my laws and…
Contributor:
Samuel Hugo Bergmann
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1913
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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…
Contributor:
Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Berlin, German Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1910–1918
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And if one were to ask: why is it that in our generation—and even in the time of the Ari of blessed memory (who successfully revealed many higher secrets)—neither fire nor angels appear, as they did…
Contributor:
Nehemiah Ḥiya Ḥayun
Places:
Berlin, Holy Roman Empire
(Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1713
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ca. 1725