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The word “Galut” embraces a whole world of facts and ideas that have appeared with varying strength and clarity in every age of Jewish…
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Yitshak Baer
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1936
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Professor Fishl Shneerson (Warsaw): Out of great respect for YIVO…
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YIVO
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Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
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1936
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No chapter in the history of the Jewish people during the last several hundred years has been as shrouded in mystery as that of the Sabbatian movement. On one point, at least, there is no longer any…
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Gershom Scholem
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Jerusalem, Mandate Palestine (Jerusalem, Israel)
Date:
1937
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The fiercest of all the conflicts between Pharisee and Sadducee concerned the doctrine of the resurrection, for in it the class conflict was most…
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Louis Finkelstein
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1938
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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Fifth Century BCE
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Maimonides, the greatest Jewish philosopher of the Middle Ages, was of the opinion that the principles and methods of metaphysics formed part of the traditional lore of the sages of the Mishnah and…
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Isaac Herzog
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Ireland, Ireland
Date:
1929
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The situation of our brethren in Germany is so frightful that it is unparalleled since the Middle Ages and the time of the decrees of 1648 and 1649. [ . . . ] In “cultured” Germany an enemy has arisen…
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Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
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Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1933
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Elephantine, Egypt (Jazīrat Aswān, Egypt)
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407 BCE
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The mystery of prayer on the days of Rosh Hashanah presents itself with characteristic familiarity: it reveals itself to those who want to fulfill it, and eludes those who want only to know it.
Prayer…
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Abraham Joshua Heschel
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Berlin, Nazi Germany (Berlin, Germany)
Date:
1936
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Gentlemen, today is the seventh of Adar, the anniversary of the death of Moses our teacher, of blessed memory. We have gathered in…
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Shlomo Zalman Ehrenreich
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Shamloy, Hungary (Berehove, Ukraine)
Date:
1939