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“Blessed are you, God, God of our ancestors, the great, awesome, and holy God. You have bequeathed human understanding (da‘at ha-enoshit) to humanity. You have gifted us with the knowledge of your…
Contributor:
Menachem Mendel Lefin
Places:
Satanov, Russian Empire (Sataniv, Ukraine)
Date:
1809
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When I was still young, nineteen years of age, it entered my mind to fool the world (as was the practice of the “holy ones” in those days), and this was the scheme I adopted: I used to travel on…
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Isaac Ber Levinzon
Places:
Kremenets, Russian Empire (Kremenets, Ukraine)
Date:
1833
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Upon you, great ones, the rebbes of the Hasidim, who follow the path of the Ba‘al Shem Tov, and of whose glorious name they boast and by…
Contributor:
Eliezer Zweifel
Places:
Žitómir, Russian Empire (Zhytomyr, Ukraine)
Date:
1873
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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…
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Samuel Joseph Fuenn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1879