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Letter from One Jewish Student to Another
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Wisdom rests quietly in a wise man (Proverbs 14:33); nothing which he purposes to do will be withheld from him [see Job 42:2]. I envisioned a man who was diligent in his labor, who was as bright as…

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Unknown

Places:

Frankfurt- Oder, Holy Roman Empire (Frankfurt (Oder), Germany)

Date:

End of the 17th Century

Subjects:

Theology, Philosophy, Education

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
Rabbinic Reports on Circumcision
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Altona, 24 Ab 5603 Chief Rabbi! Messrs. Adler and Fuld, members of your congregation, asked for my opinion, from the Jewish-religious perspective…

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Jacob Ettlinger

Places:

Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1844

Subjects:

Talmud, Halakhah, Circumcision, Theology

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Theology, Religion & Theology
Letter to the Friends of Lessing (On the Spinoza Conversations between Lessing and Jacobi)
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Our friend’s devotion to Spinozism is not to be seen as a mere hypothesis (as the Patriarch in Nathan puts it), postulated simply in order to discuss its pros and cons. Herr Jacobi, a man of…

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Moses Mendelssohn

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1786

Subjects:

Philosophy, Polemics, Scholarship, Theology, Enlightenment

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters, Metaphysics, Science & Philosophy
Bust of man on pedestal.