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So, after all, we have arrived again in a situation where we must confess. We younger ones had felt entitled to the hope that we would gradually succeed in living integrated into the “nation of Kant”…
What is the teaching of kabbalah and Hasidism if not expansion (Torat ha-harḥavah)? The tangible world should expand, the given worlds should increase, and this Torah that is written and passed down…
The question I put before you, as well as before myself, is the question of the meaning of Judaism for the Jews.
Why do we call ourselves Jews? Because we are Jews? What does that mean: we are Jews? I…
If in what follows the nature of language is considered on the basis of the first chapter of Genesis, the object is neither biblical interpretation nor subjection of the Bible to objective…
The problem concerning the establishment of a Higher School for Jewish studies, which was recently raised by the Society for the Promotion of Culture Among the Jews of Russia (OPE), should be…
In view of the wide divergence of opinion and of the conflicting ideas prevailing in Judaism today, we, as representatives of Reform Judaism in America, in continuation of the work begun at…
We see that the categories of understanding the nation produced in its adolescence are a result of emotions developed in its childhood. According to our approach, we can conclude that the Talmud—which…
[ . . . ] A few remarks on foreign words in the literature which for the sake of brevity is here called Talmudic, may not be out of place in this preface.The intercourse between the Jews of the…
The conventional pattern of living, based on propriety, on the requisites of good character and conformity to law—this corresponds to the way of the world of order. Every rebellion against this…
Warsaw, October 17, 1932
Dear friend S. Niger,
When we speak about left and right, we should, first of all, enclose both words in thick quotation marks, and then we have to remember that true left…