The Sanctification of the Name

Samuel Hugo Bergmann

1913

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 fulfill them; I am Yahwe. And do not desecrate the Name of My Holiness, so that I will become sanctified in the midst of the children of Israel. I am Yahwe…

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Samuel Hugo Bergmann

1883–1975

A member of the Prague circle of German Jewish intellectuals before World War I, Samuel Hugo Bergmann was strongly influenced by Martin Buber’s spiritual Zionism and neoromantic religious philosophy. He settled in Jerusalem in 1920, where he served first as director of the National and University Library and later as professor of philosophy and rector at the Hebrew University. In 1925 he founded, together with Buber, Brit Shalom, a group that advocated the creation of a binational state in the Land of Israel.

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