Showing Results 1 - 10 of 14
Restricted
Text
And Hannah prayed:
My heart exults in the Lord;
I have triumphed through the Lord.
I gloat over my enemies;
I rejoice in Your deliverance.
There is no holy one like the Lord,
Truly, there is none…
Places:
Land of Israel (Israel)
Date:
Biblical Period
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
And they permitted themselves to place a blemish in the holiness of heaven and the holiness of the study of the holy Torah, to place the filth of the primeval serpent, behaving according to their…
Contributor:
Moses Ḥagiz
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Judaism’s approach to history is shaped by the fact that unlike other religions, it locates perfection not at the beginning but at the end of history. This, surely, is the…
Contributor:
Elijah Benamozegh
Places:
Livorno, Kingdom of Italy (Livorno, Italy)
Date:
1863
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
They distort the words of the living God. It is a clear Torah lesson, as the sages have taught: “Whosoever speculates on four things, a pity for him! He is as though he had not come into the world.”
T…
Contributor:
Tzvi Hirsch Ashkenazi
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1714
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Image
Glicenstein depicted the Jewish Messiah as a semi-nude figure in the classical style, with bowed head and tethered to his seat. It received early recognition, admired by Rodin and praised in the…
Contributor:
Henryk Glicenstein
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
ca. 1911
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
The Messiah of Israel does not come to redeem men from some original sin they never committed, nor from sins which they can liberate themselves of every day, through divine mercy and their own powers…
Contributor:
Dante A. Lattes
Places:
Rome, Kingdom of Italy (Rome, Italy)
Date:
1923
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
1. “If you’re planting a tree and you hear Mashiah has come, first finish planting and then run to the city gates to tell him Shalom” (Yochanan Ben Zakkai).
Therefore: Plant a tree somewhere as a…
Contributor:
Arthur Waskow
Places:
Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1973
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
“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
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I am convinced that the problems implicit in “death of God” theology concern Judaism as much as Christianity. Technically death-of-God theology reflects the Christian tradition of the passion of the…
Contributor:
Richard L. Rubenstein
Places:
Date:
1966
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Without any intent to praise myself inappropriately, but rather to take note that perseverance and good will helps to achieve results, I want to emphasize that, without causing any…
Contributor:
Aleksander Kraushar
Places:
Kraków, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1895