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The Neila
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The end of the day approaches. The Book of Life and Death is about to be closed, and the hand of God will inscribe the destiny of man. It hesitates, trembles, stops. A voice, sweet and frail, an…

Contributor:

Jacques Taraboulos

Date:

1945

Subjects:

Eschatology, Prayer, Death, Holidays, Yom Kippur

Categories:

Poetry, Literature, Theology
The Holy Fire
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The Holy Fire, one of the greatest examples of religious resistance in the Warsaw ghetto, explores a theological explanation for Jewish suffering during the Holocaust.

Contributor:

Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

Places:

Warsaw, General Government (Warsaw, Poland)

Date:

1942

Subjects:

Apocalypse, Eschatology, Hanukkah, Death

Categories:

Religion & Theology, Sermons
Black and white image of an Orthodox Jewish man wearing spectacles.
The Vision of the Dry Bones
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The hand of the Lord came upon me. He took me out by the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the valley. It was full of bones. He led me all around them; there were very many of them spread over…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Biblical Period

Subjects:

Prophets, Death, Burial, Eschatology, Messianism

Categories:

Literature, Prophetic Literature