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The house known today as the House of the Sun is a large stone structure next to the synagogue. But long, long ago it was called the Devil’s Head, and it was…
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Yuspa Shamash
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Worms, Free Imperial City of Worms (Worms, Germany)
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1696
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Reason and Righteousness in the Field.Reason:Righteousness, beloved of my soul, may your heart be of good courage. Gird yourself with vigor, for, the further salvation seems to be from…
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Moses Ḥayim Luzzatto
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Early 18th Century–1740
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This rediscovery of Judaism at the end of the end of philosophy, at the tertium quid, the middle of ethics, occurs at the deepest difficulty of both philosophy and Judaism, where they are equally cast…
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Gillian Rose
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Oxford, United Kingdom
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1992
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In view of the changes that have taken place in the modern world and the consequent need of stating anew the teachings of Reform Judaism, the Central Conference of American Rabbis makes the following…
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Central Conference of American Rabbis
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Columbus, United States of America
Date:
1937
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Abraham:We only have a few minutes, and we have to decide whether the kibbutz should keep fighting, despite the army’s withdrawal, while we’re surrounded. It must be clear that any decision, one way…
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Yigal Mossinson
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1949
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Living in accordance with the Halakhah, demarcating a sphere of the sacred through halakhic practice—is this the ultimate end of the religious life? The answer is both yes and no. On the one hand…
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1953
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You shall appoint magistrates and officials for your tribes, in all the settlements that the Lord your God is giving you, and they shall govern the people with due justice. You shall…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Biblical Period
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A political sect has sprung up avowedly adverse to the Estates of the Realm, and seeking by means which, of course, it holds legal, the abrogation of a majority of them. These anti-constitutional…
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Benjamin Disraeli
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London, United Kingdom
Date:
1835
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The prophet Hosea cried out: Come, let us turn back to the Lord; He attacked, and He can heal us; He wounded, and He can bind us up. In two days He will make us whole again; on the third day He will…
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Jonathan Eybeschütz
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Metz, France
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1744
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As the first and most beautiful relationship in which woman is undeniably necessary to man—the object of his first affections, to whom he owes all of cherishing, happiness, and health, from infancy to…
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Grace Aguilar
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Brighton, United Kingdom
Date:
1844