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Eretz-Israel [The Land of Israel] was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural…
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Provisional Government of the State of Israel
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Tel Aviv, Israel
Date:
1948
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54. There are two paths toward faith; one is the absolutely true one, and the other is the rational one. The latter changes in accordance with the times. There are occasions when, if there is some…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
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ca. 1920
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May he be written and sealed immediately for good, long life—the honored rabbi, the splendid gentleman, the sharp and erudite, God-fearing, distinguished, may his name be honored, our teacher, R…
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Ḥayim Soloveitchik
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Brisk, Russian Empire (Brest, Belarus)
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1900
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My heart is seeking out the Lord, and to Almighty God I pray
That He come back unto the altar, shelter me beneath His shade,
And that He settle Israel’s throngs in a tranquil dwelling place.
In…
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Israel Najara
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Gaza, Ottoman Empire (Gaza, Palestine)
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Early 17th Century
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[ . . . ] That sacred foundation, which constitutes the main theme of all this great vision, contains within it a hidden ray of the light of the Messiah, the redeemer who is revealed and concealed…
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Abraham Isaac Kook
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1929
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I do not lift my supplicating hands,
O King, O Lord, O Father, yon on high,
To You whose throne dwells in the starry lands,
I neither plead nor yet Your might defy.
I do not ask of You to end my…
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Siegfried Kapper
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Prague, Austrian Empire (Prague, Czech Republic)
Date:
1846
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A nighttime song of praise I have
To sing before my Lord,
And in the day His help is at my side.
All my life, my soul has longed
To see the courts
Of God, to read the Torah.
And so I come betimes…
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Isaac Samuel Modeano
Places:
Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
End of the 17th Century
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Since Judaism is law, the doubts of the Jewish youth are not an evil, at least per se they are not an evil. If Judaism were only instruction, the doubts raised by the instruction would…
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Isaac Breuer
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Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
Date:
1910