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Are we who are in this exile the people of Israel, that is, the worshipers of the God of Israel . . . essentially . . . or in . . . name only? . . . For it seems to me that we are not the people of…
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Eliezer Eilburg
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Habsburg Empire (Moravia, Czech Republic)
Date:
1575
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Since Judaism is law, the doubts of the Jewish youth are not an evil, at least per se they are not an evil. If Judaism were only instruction, the doubts raised by the instruction would…
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Isaac Breuer
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Berlin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
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1910
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[47] Now all that remains is to reply to certain arguments by which they want to persuade themselves that the choice of the Hebrews was not for a time, and in relation only to their state, but eternal…
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Baruch Spinoza
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Amsterdam, Dutch Republic (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Date:
1670
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Return to your ancient past
Aid your sister with education and culture
And people of Israel will once more be a nation.
Awake, daughter of Babylon, mother of knowledge
Take up in your hand the pen…
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Salim Yitshak Nissim
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Baghdad, Mandatory Iraq (Baghdad, Iraq)
Date:
1921
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“People generally say: the Torah before anything else. I, however, would say: Jews are holy, and they come first.” [Seder Eliyahu Rabba 14.2]This is the history of how Jewish thinking became enslaved…
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Ya‘akov Ze’ev Latski-Bertholdi
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Vilna, Russian Empire (Vilnius, Lithuania)
Date:
1914
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And Jacob dwelt in the land of his father’s sojourning, in the land of Canaan (Genesis 37:1): In that part of the land of Canaan where his father had lived, similar to the verse: [To Mamre, to Kiryat…
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Ovadiah Sforno
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Bologna, Papal States (Bologna, Italy)
Date:
Before 1550
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Oh my God, my God,
Mighty One of my existence,
have mercy on Your lost son
who has wandered from the ancestral path
and, exiled to cold and unfamiliar climes,
sought to be close to You,
but has not…
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Hillel Bavli
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New York City, United States of America
Date:
1923
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It is with a feeling of deep reverence and consecration that I rise to open the Constituent Assembly of the State of Israel, the first Knesset Israel of our time in this eternal…
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Chaim Weizmann
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Jerusalem, Israel
Date:
1949
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The Jewish man is first and foremost the Hebrew man, and the Jewish man, since he is Hebrew, is the man of origins. Origins of what? Origins of what all of us are, origins of Western as well as…
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André Neher
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Strasbourg, France
Date:
1972
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Nathan, the shoemaker from Porisov, a small Jewish village in Poland, came home one evening shortly before his departure for Colombia with a Torah scroll under his arm. With a slight shiver, he lay…
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Salomón Brainsky
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1955