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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…

Contributor:

Elhanan Wasserman

Places:

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

Date:

ca. 1939

Subjects:

Rabbinic/Rabbinite, Talmud, Rabbis

Categories:

Political Culture, Theology
On Necessary Jewish Educational Reforms
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We can see that our sages, of blessed memory, likewise declared the Torah a weapon, as it has stood by us, enabling us to emerge triumphant in the wars for our religious and moral existence, in which…

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Yitsḥak Ya‘akov Reines

Places:

Lida, Russian Empire (Lida, Belarus)

Date:

1913

Subjects:

Education, Yeshiva, Jewish languages, Jewish identity, Torah study

Categories:

Political Culture, Pedagogy & Schooling