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They [the hasidim] study Kabbalah and Talmud diligently and successfully, and consequently they have among them excellent Talmud scholars. They also comprise three groups, each of them under one chief…
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Bonaventura Mayer
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Regensburg, German Confederation (Regensburg, Germany)
Date:
1842
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Altona, 24 Ab 5603
Chief Rabbi!
Messrs. Adler and Fuld, members of your congregation, asked for my opinion, from the Jewish-religious perspective…
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Jacob Ettlinger
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Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)
Date:
1844
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In the year 1803, on Sunday afternoon the 5th of June, I and my uncle, accompanied—from the town gate onwards—by a soldier, arrived at the bet midrash, located at the Zimmerhofe. The soldier left us…
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Leopold Zunz
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
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Mid–19th century
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The Lion’s Chancellor, the Wolf, was taken to court by all the animals, who complained that no living being was safe from his predatory jaws. “This insatiable creature…
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David Friedländer
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Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1779
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1. We have now obtained a preliminary articulation of reason and religion; we turn now to the sources of Judaism, out of which the religion of reason should be derived. We ought…
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Hermann Cohen
Places:
Marburg, Weimar Republic (Marburg an der Lahn, Germany)
Date:
1919