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Not as if it were an accident,
not as if he were leaving Prague and coming to Havana,
eight years later bringing Mama,
to put her behind the cash register,
instill certain principles,
give her little…
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José Kozer
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1973
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Certainly, dearest parents, I know what is commonly the result of the influence of education and of misunderstood religion, but is it possible that you could hate your son because he harbors other…
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Michael Joseph Edler von Arnstein
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Vienna, Holy Roman Empire (Vienna, Austria)
Date:
1783
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How great is the benefit of the printing houses, for thanks to the power of the printing press, the Torah is enhanced everywhere in the world. The rabbis are certainly making the effort to produce…
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Judah Papo
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Sarajevo, Ottoman Empire (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Date:
1870
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When Rabbi Zusya went to suffer the exile in Germany, he came to a city of Reform Jews. When they saw his ways, they mocked him and thought he was crazy. When he came into the synagogue, some of them…
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Elimelech of Lizhensk, Zusya of Annopol (Hanipoli)
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Hannopil’, Russian Empire (Hannopil', Ukraine)
Date:
1902
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It is written: All the men of Israel . . . knit together as one man (Judg. 20:11). Just as one man is composed of many limbs, and when they become separated it affects the heart…
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Shneur Zalman of Liady
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Liozna, Russian Empire (Lyozna, Belarus)
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Late 18th–early 19th century
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All nations have been subject, in their authors, as in all other things, to significant important changes. Inclinations, needs, and the relations of their subjects change, as do the passions of the…
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Benedetto Frizzi
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Trieste, Habsburg Empire (Trieste, Italy)
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1787–1790
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Lelio Della Torre
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Padua, Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia (Padova, Italy)
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1829
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1. What religion do you profess?
I believe in the Mosaic Religion, which was revealed by the Lord; and I esteem the same as the true, pure, and unmixed word of God.
2…
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Isaac Leeser
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Philadelphia, United States of America
Date:
1839
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We translated Musar haskel for the following five reasons:
The first is that our hearts have become so hardened that instruction does not easily penetrate them. This is why we wrote this educational…
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Isaac Bekhor Amarachi, Joseph ben Meir Sason
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Salonika, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Date:
1843
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For the purposes of preparing for this emancipation, four measures are proposed: 1) the establishment of a Jewish newspaper in Russian; 2) the establishment of a scholarly literary journal in Yiddish…
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Emmanuil Borisovich Levin
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Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Date:
1859