Showing Results 21 - 27 of 27
Public Access
Text
That which God puts in my mouth I shall express (Numbers 22:38) in succinct and easy language, so that it will be simple for the discerning to grasp. And my purpose is to inform everyone to whom this…
Contributor:
Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
Places:
Kraków, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Kraków, Poland)
Date:
1646
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
And therefore, with that, I, the young man, said that I will make a little book of my “Hymns for the Cantor with My Tunes” for the public benefit. Perhaps the one who makes use of them will do so for…
Contributor:
Moses Ibn Tsur
Places:
Fez, Morocco (Fes, Morocco)
Date:
1712
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
Chapter I. IntroductoryI. The Problem of Coherence“There is (thus) a zone of insecurity in human affairs,” remarks William James in his essay on The Importance of Individuals, “in which all the…
Contributor:
Max Kadushin
Places:
Madison, United States of America
Date:
1938
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
If we Jews had our patron saints, the priest-prophet Ezekiel would be the patron saint of those of us who are vitally concerned in the outcome of the present crisis in…
Contributor:
Mordecai M. Kaplan
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
1948
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
Regarding those who fight one another inside the synagogue over the seats which each one has designated for himself, as when one is late in arriving and finds that another person is sitting in his…
Contributor:
Jacob Huli
Places:
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (Istanbul, Turkey)
Date:
1732
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
When I last occupied this pulpit I spoke on the text, “Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” I tried to indicate some of the stages by which this maxim became the Golden Rule of conduct, until it…
Contributor:
Israel Abrahams
Places:
London, United Kingdom
Date:
1895
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
I have been considering for a long while responding with my opinion on the law and the truth concerning occasional improper events that occur thus. For years wars have raged between kings, as is well…
Contributor:
Raphael Samuel ben Jacob Arditti
Places:
Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1890/91