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This book was submitted for publication two years ago.Considering that within the realm of Jewish history in nineteenth-century Russia there is no systematically consolidated…
Contributor:
Yisroel Sosis
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Minsk, Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (Minsk, Belarus)
Date:
1929
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This is no fairy tale, it really happened.
In our shtetl, there was a bright young man named Móyshele. He was as smart as a whip, and also a good-for-nothing. Then all at once he disappeared, and no…
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Sonya the Wise Woman (Sonya Naimark)
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Mogilev, Russian Empire (Mogilev, Belarus)
Date:
1908
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A notated version of a wordless Hasidic niggun, melody, attributed to Shneur Zalman of Liady, the founder of Chabad Hasidism.
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
ca. 1800
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Now, aside from the fact that it is altogether impossible to interpret the matter of tzimtzum literally, for that would attribute corporeal events to the…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Lyady, Russian Empire (Lyady, Belarus)
Date:
1797
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Devekut requires that there be no impediment between man and God; only then is devekut possible. As in the parable of the Besht, it is impossible to join silver coins together…
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Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk
Places:
Vitebsk, Russian Empire (Vitebsk, Belarus)
Date:
1814