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I was honored to receive your request to express my opinion on the current question of electing women to the Jewish representative assembly…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
Places:
Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1919
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Lord of the world, my God,
I humbly beg You, with a broken heart,
And with my weak body,
To confirm my baby in Torah,
As a person of honor and riches.…
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Unknown
Places:
Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1648
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The soul of man, Signor Baldassare, is incorruptible, immortal, and divine, created and infused by God into our body when the fetus in the maternal womb was made fit to receive it. This truth is as…
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Sarra Copia Sullam
Places:
Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)
Date:
1621
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In the beginning, the Lord God formed Adam and Lilith from the dust of the ground and breathed into their nostrils the breath of life. Created from the same source, both having been formed from the…
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Judith Plaskow
Places:
Boston, United States of America
Date:
1979
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A recent discussion of our question concludes as follows:
In conclusion, women are not permitted under any circumstances to wear tefillin. In view of the fact that the Rema, the…
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David Golinkin
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1986
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What is the testimony that proves my guilt? The punishment itself. Although Naomi says that she must have been guilty, it’s as if she doesn’t really know what she is guilty of. It’s only when things…
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Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Places:
Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1992
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The days of my life pass by, dissolve like mist.
I don’t know the what and when; I don’t know the who.
Baal and Astarte have grown alien to me.
My kingdom and my foes grow alien, too.
I don’t…
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Shulamit Kalugai
Places:
Mandate Palestine (Israel)
Date:
1941
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Leah’s eyes were weak, but Rachel was beautiful of figure and beautiful of appearance (Gen. 29:17). Targum Onkelos renders this verse as “Leah’s eyes…
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Kalonimos Kalman Epstein
Places:
Kraków, Republic of Kraków (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1842
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Before she labored, she was delivered;
Before her pangs came, she bore a son!
—Isaiah 66:7
Fear not, worm of Jacob,
O people of Israel,
For I will help you.
—Isaiah 41:14
The hard, painful hour…
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Fanny Neuda
Places:
Loschitz, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1854
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Our God is one. You are my God: Hallelujah!
Who created me, body and soul: Hallelujah!
You created Heaven and earth: Hallelujah!
We will praise You forever: Hallelujah!
You…
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Rebecca Tiktiner
Places:
Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)
Prague, Czech Republic
Date:
Second Half of the 16th Century