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It was like this in the garden:
Ben Azzai looked and died,
Ben Zoma looked and went mad;
Akiba and I went forth in peace,
but they said I cut down the young plants.
I said that one is two…
Contributor:
Norman Finkelstein
Places:
New York, United States of America
Date:
2000
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In those days a new light shone forth over the skies of Polish Jewry—R. Solomon Luria. [ . . . ] This great rabbi was one of those unique individuals, one of those few men of virtue that not every…
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Ḥayim Tchernowitz
Places:
Odessa, Russian Empire (Odesa, Ukraine)
Date:
1898
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An Addendum to the History of R. Moses Isserles
Rabbinic literature assigns to customs (minhag) an extensive and highly prominent role. In fact, the talmudic sages always looked upon customs with…
Contributor:
Shmuel Aba Horodetsky
Places:
Warsaw, Russian Empire (Warsaw, Poland)
Date:
1914