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Are we who are in this exile the people of Israel, that is, the worshipers of the God of Israel . . . essentially . . . or in . . . name only? . . . For it seems to me that we are not the people of…
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Eliezer Eilburg
Places:
Habsburg Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1575
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[47] Now all that remains is to reply to certain arguments by which they want to persuade themselves that the choice of the Hebrews was not for a time, and in relation only to their state, but eternal…
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Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Republic of the Seven United Netherlands (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1670
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Since Judaism is law, the doubts of the Jewish youth are not an evil, at least per se they are not an evil. If Judaism were only instruction, the doubts raised by the instruction would…
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Isaac Breuer
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Berlin, German Empire (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1910
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Our maskilim did not understand this, and that is why the shtrayml triumphed over them. In the end all of them returned to tradition. Peretz no longer laughs like he used to. He immersed himself in…
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Ya‘akov Ze’ev Latski-Bertholdi
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1914
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1): In that part of the land of Canaan where his father had lived, similar to the verse: [To Mamre, to Kiryat…
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Ovadiah Sforno
Places:
Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)
Date:
Before 1550