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Dor ve-dorshav (A Generation and Its Seekers)
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Now when I was a young lad, sitting amidst the dust of the feet of those bound up with the houses of study, I would never hear them speaking anything sensible about the Hasidim, explaining and…

Contributor:

Samuel Joseph Fuenn

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1879

Subjects:

Hasidism, Halakhah, Prayer, Rabbis, Talmud

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography
Epistle against the Hasidim
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For there are seven abominations in their hearts to ensnare the souls of the innocent, and they abolish public study of the Torah, and they cast off the yoke of the Torah from their necks and from the…

Contributor:

Elijah ben Solomon, Gaon of Vilna

Places:

Vilna, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1772

Subjects:

Polemics, Hasidism, Prayer, Halakhah

Categories:

Religion & Theology