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Tractate: The Onset of the Messiah
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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:

Holocaust, Antisemitism, Violence, Theology, Nazis

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Theology, Rabbinic Commentary
Lament of the Daughter of Judah
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O God of Hosts, our God from of old, Was it for this that You selected our ancestors from days of yore That You took their descendants as an inheritance for Yourself To set them up as the target of…

Contributor:

Abraham Dov (Adam) ha-Kohen Lebensohn

Places:

Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Date:

1842

Subjects:

Theology, Prayer, Violence

Categories:

Literature, Poetry