Showing Results 1 - 6 of 6
Public Access
Text
Sensitive Content
The year 5480 of the creation of the earth and heaven, in the first month, which is the month of Nisan, the wailing of the oppressed increased. For then the hooligans began to cut off and harry the…
Contributor:
Shabbetai ha-Kohen Katz
Places:
Vilna, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1651
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
The time (in which we live) is truly “a time to work for the Almighty,” and great is the responsibility now falling upon every Jew with the ability to do so. [ . . . ] All the lands of the diaspora…
Contributor:
Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
Places:
Vilna, Lithuania (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1934
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
1. Giedymin, the great prince of Lithuania, who dwelt in the fortress of the city of Troki, once went forth…
Contributor:
Samuel Joseph Fuenn
Places:
Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1860
Subjects:
Categories:
Restricted
Text
4. [ . . . ] The Gaon of Vilna writes [in his Even Shelemah] that the second chapter of Vayishla? is the chapter of the “footsteps of the Messiah.” When Jacob returned from his…
Contributor:
Elhanan Wasserman
Places:
Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1938
Subjects:
Categories:
Public Access
Text
[ . . . ] During the Middle Ages and the decrees of the year 5408 [1648], when our brethren the children of Israel believed with real faith in the Almighty and in His…
Contributor:
Chaim Ozer Grodzensky
Places:
Vilna, Second Polish Republic (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1938–1939
Subjects:
Public Access
Text
The evening of 5 Heshvan, 5642 [October 28, 1881]
Tomorrow with the second post, a pamphlet will be sent to you with a responsum entitled Isaac’s Stream (Naḥal Yitsḥak), regarding a miserable agunah…
Contributor:
Isaac Elḥanan Spektor
Places:
Kovno, Russian Empire (Kaunas, Lithuania)
Date:
1881