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Periodization of the Eras and the Evolution of the Generations
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Rabbi Elhanan related: “I once asked the Hafetz Chaim: “Granted that we are accustomed to a division of eras in Jewish religious history—the Tannaitic era separately, and the Amoraic era separately…

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Elhanan Wasserman

Places:

Baranovitsh, General Government for the Occupied Polish Region (Baranovichi, Belarus)

Date:

ca. 1939

Subjects:

Rabbinic/Rabbanite, Talmud, Rabbis, Politics, Theology

Categories:

Political Culture, Theology
Igeret ha-yeshiva (Epistle on the Yeshiva)
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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

Places:

Volozhin, Russian Empire (Valozhyn, Belarus)

Date:

1803

Subjects:

Education, Scholarship, Torah study, Talmud, Halakhah, Theology

Categories:

Theology, Pedagogy & Schooling