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Awake My People!
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Awake, my people! How long will you slumber? The night has passed, the sun shines bright. Awake, lift up your eyes, look around you— Acknowledge, I pray you, your time and your place. . . . The…

Contributor:

Judah Leib Gordon

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1866

Subjects:

Emancipation, Politics, Jewish identity, Language and linguistics, Enlightenment

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
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Epochs
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The calm outgoing of a long, rich day, Checkered with storm and sunshine, gloom and light, Now passing in pure, cloudless skies away, Withdrawing into silence of blank night. Thick shadows…

Contributor:

Emma Lazarus

Places:

New York City, United States of America

Date:

ca. 1875

Subjects:

Mental illness, Death, Mourning

Categories:

Literature, Poetry
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Sefer luḥot edut (Tablets of Testimony)
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For it is not against me that these men have sinned, for what am I and what is my life? My days have passed like a transient shadow, and fly away as does a dream—like a dream upon…

Contributor:

Jonathan Eybeschütz

Places:

Altona, Denmark (Altona, Germany)

Date:

1755

Subjects:

Aging, Amulets, Sabbatianism, Health, Polemics

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Firsthand Accounts, Letters
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Ketav yosher (Epistle of Justice)
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Has he had the temerity to speak perversely against the foundations of the faith and of the Torah, and mocked the words of our sages of blessed memory recorded in the Mishnah and the Gemara, or has he…

Contributor:

Saul Berlin

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1784

Subjects:

Polemics, Holidays, Ritual object, Enlightenment, Satire

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Humor & Satire, Literature
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No‘am Elimelekh (Pleasing Qualities of Elimelech)
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In the blessing “With a great love hast Thou loved us,” we say, “and unify our heart to love and fear Thy Name.” This is apparently in contradiction to the principle…

Contributor:

Elimelech of Lizhensk

Places:

Leżajsk, Habsburg Empire (Leżajsk, Poland)

Subjects:

Hasidism, Prayer, Love

Categories:

Religion & Theology
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Besamim rosh (Scent of a Bitter Spice)
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Now in regard to your inquiry as to my view on the question of the halakhic status of the odor of leavened substances on Passover, as there are some authorities who maintain that odor is…

Contributor:

Saul Berlin

Places:

Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (Berlin, Germany)

Date:

1793

Subjects:

Halakhah, Passover, Kashrut, Medicine, Talmud

Categories:

Law, Responsa, Religion & Theology
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Sefer mar’eh Yeḥezkel (The Vision of Ezekiel)
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Besides these, there are students of outstanding ability in their Torah study seated constantly in his presence—they are swifter than eagles and mightier than lions, each…

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Ezekiel Paneth

Places:

Linsk/Lisko, Austrian Empire (Lisko, Ukraine)

Date:

1805

Subjects:

Hasidism, Education, Scholarship, Rabbis, Enlightenment

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, History, Historical Writing
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Aaron Hart and His Children
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Dear Mo: I se no way for you to keep Pesah at William Hanry thear fore you had batter come over hear the Sunday before than you neat not due any thing to your house to git the hamez out of your house…

Contributor:

Aaron Hart

Places:

Trois-Rivières, Great Britain (Trois-Rivières, Canada)

Date:

1790

Subjects:

Family, Holidays, Passover

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, Letters
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Memoirs of the Life of Daniel Mendoza
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Few events of a similar kind ever attracted the attention of the public, in such a degree, as the contests between Mr. Humphreys and myself. The long correspondence which passed between us previous to…

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Daniel Mendoza

Places:

London, United Kingdom

Date:

1816

Subjects:

Sports, Humor, Interfaith relations

Categories:

Firsthand Accounts, (Auto)biography, Memoirs & Diaries
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Fringes
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The Lord said to Moses as follows: Speak to the Israelite people and instruct them to make for themselves fringes on the corners of their garments throughout the ages; let them attach a cord of…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Dress, Monotheism, Jewish identity, Ritual object, Piety

Categories:

Law, Biblical Law
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