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Song for Simkhes Toyre
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Our God is one. You are my God:     Hallelujah! Who created me, body and soul:      Hallelujah! You created Heaven and earth:      Hallelujah! We will praise You forever:      Hallelujah! You…

Contributor:

Rebecca Tiktiner

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Holidays, Simḥat Torah, Prayer, Women, Piety

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Prayer & Liturgy, Literature, Poetry
Sefat emet: The Inner Sustaining Point
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He looked, and there was a well in the field, and there were three flocks of sheep lying down by it, for from that well the flocks were watered. But the stone was large on the mouth of the well. When…

Contributor:

Sefat Emet (Judah Leib Alter)

Places:

Russian Empire (Poland, Poland)

Date:

1905

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Piety, Hasidism, Orthodox Judaism, Modernity

Categories:

Political Culture, Religion & Theology
Tekhine imohos (Women’s Supplication of the Matriarchs)
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Riboyne shel oylem, Almighty God, You created heaven and earth and all creatures with great compassion within six days and with only ten words. And on the seventh day, which is shabes koydesh, You…

Contributor:

Leah Horowitz

Places:

Glogau, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Głogów, Poland)

Date:

Mid–18th Century

Subjects:

Women, Holidays, Sabbath, Rosh Ḥodesh, Piety

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology
Meneket Rivkah (Rebecca’s Nursemaid)
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King Solomon, peace be upon him, says in…

Contributor:

Rebecca Tiktiner

Places:

Tykocin, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Tykocin, Poland)

Date:

Second Half of the 16th Century

Subjects:

Women, Piety, Family, Marriage, Yiddish

Categories:

Literature, Wisdom Literature, Religion & Theology
Tasks of the Polish Jews
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The Jews in Poland still have a very demanding and holy task ahead of themselves. Or, to be more exact, they have a holy, lofty, most important and most responsible mission. Hasidism was born in…

Contributor:

Hillel Zeitlin

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1916

Subjects:

Scholarship, Hasidism, Jewish identity, Education, Piety

Categories:

Science & Philosophy, Religion & Theology
Commentary on Sotah: On the Education of Girls
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Rabbi Eliezer said: Whoever teaches his daughter Torah teaches her indecency [m. Sotah 3:4] The rabbis wrote that this refers only to the Oral Torah; but the Written Torah—even though one should not…

Contributor:

Chofetz Chaim

Places:

Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1918

Subjects:

Education, Women, Oral Torah, Piety, Sin

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology