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Shepherds and their flocks were scattered on the rocky hillsides, among the woods of low terebinth and the stretches of wild rose, and even along the swirling contours of valleys foaming with light…
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S. Yizhar
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Merẖavya, Israel
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1948
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For us, contemporaries and survivors of history’s most terrible horrors, it is impossible to meditate about the compassion of God without asking: Where is God?
Emblazoned over the gates of the world…
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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New York, United States of America
Date:
1951
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I heard from the venerable rabbinic scholar, R. Nahman, an interpretation of the words of [the Besht] that one should intend in every word that he utters submissiveness…
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Jacob Joseph of Polnoye
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Polonnoye, Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
(Polonne, Ukraine)
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1780
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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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Artist Unknown
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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ca. 1665
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I swear by the Eternal God and by His ten most holy commandments, which were given on Mount Sinai through Moses as lawgiver after the people had been freed from their bondage in Egypt, that I have…
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Nicolas de Nicolay, Francesco Ziletti, Amatus Lusitanus
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire
(Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1559
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Why is my back loaded with fine flour, while in my mouth there is no bread at all, but only straw? I drink well-water, though I carry wine. And the stick goes on fracturing my skull!
I live in rubble…
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Samuel Archevolti
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Padua, Republic of Venice
(Padua, Italy)
Date:
End of the 16th Century
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Half a century has passed since the victory of the Allied troops put an abrupt end to Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question”—but the memory of the Holocaust goes on polluting the world of…
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Zygmunt Bauman
Places:
Durham, United States of America
(Leeds, United Kingdom)
Date:
1998
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[…] That we in Israel are in need of a dose of Jewish soul—that this, as much as sheer survival, with which it is in no small way connected, is a pressing issue of our existence—I readily concede. But…
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Hillel Halkin
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Philadelphia, United States of America
(Zikhron Ya‘aqov, Israel)
Date:
1976
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A simple searing truth emerges from the vast body of research and writing on the Holocaust. It is that European Jewry was ground to dust between the twin millstones of a murderous Nazi intent and a…
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Henry L. Feingold
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1979