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Our dear brethren, Children of Israel, perhaps the time has now come to repair the breaches in our ranks; let us return to uphold the Torah of the Almighty with all our strength. Who will be the…
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Ḥayim of Volozhin
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Volozhin, Russian Empire (Valozhyn, Belarus)
Date:
1803
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The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
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David Friedländer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1779
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[Question:] A certain gentleman, a close and trusted friend, a Torah scholar who had read scripture, learned Mishnah, and ministered to many learned talmudic scholars, invited me to come to the holy…
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Yair Ḥayim Bacharach
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Worms, Holy Roman Empire (Worms, Germany)
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1699
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Dedicated to Dr. Zunz, the grandmaster of Jewish scholarship, on his 90th birthday.
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Wilhelm Bacher
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Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)
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1884
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The yearning to modernize the yeshiva and give it the appearance of a seminary grew considerably in the hearts of our scholars; but, regretfully, they used whatever filth…
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Mikhah Yosef Berdyczewski
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Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
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1888