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    Simcha Bunim Bonhardt of Peshischa (Yiddish: שמחה בונם בונהרט פון פשיסכע, [ˈsɪmχə ˈbʊnɪm ˈbʊnhaʁt ˈfʊn ˈpʒɪsχə]; c. 1765 – September 4, 1827) also known...
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    leading disciple of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765–1827). Before the Holocaust, followers of Ger were estimated to number in excess of 100,000, making...
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    leadership of Rabinowicz, Peshischa was closer to a philosophy whereas, under Simcha Bunim it was transformed into a religious movement. Under Simcha Bunim's leadership...
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  • by his main disciple Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, who increased his movement's influence tenfold. The Yehudi is the patriarch of the Porisov and Biala...
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    Yitzchak Meir Alter (category Rebbes of Ger)
    rebbes of Kozhnitz, however after some years, he was drawn to Rebbe Simcha Bunim of Peshischa, whose close adherent he became. After the demise of Simcha Bunim...
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  • emerged from the Peshischa School was Menachem Mendel of Kotzk. Adopting an elitist, hard-line attitude, he openly denounced the folkly nature of other tzaddiqim...
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    Pshiskhe). In the past, it was home to a number of Hasidic Rabbis, such as The Holy Jew and Simcha Bunim of Peshischa. Przysucha is located on the Radomka river...
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    Amshinov (category Hasidic dynasties of Poland)
    which in part is a branch of Peshischa Hasidism, as Israel Yitzhak Kalish was a leading disciple of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765-1827). The first Amshinover...
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    conceived in a variety of ways. Traditionally, Judaism holds that Yahweh—that is, the god of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and the national god of the Israelites—delivered...
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    immortality of the soul (War 2.154: "...although bodies are corruptible and their matter unstable, souls are immortal and live forever...")" Simcha Paull Raphael...
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  • inventor Simcha Bunim Alter (1898–1992) Simcha Bunim Cohen, Orthodox rabbi and author Simcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765–1827), key leader of Hasidic Judaism...
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    Microcosm–macrocosm analogy (category Metaphysics of religion)
    about the nature of the cosmos as a whole may be inferred from truths about human nature, and vice versa. One important corollary of this view is that...
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    Kotzk (category Hasidic dynasties of Poland)
    Mendel Morgenstern was the leading disciple of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765–1827). Following Simcha Bunim's death he led the divided Peschischa community...
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  • student of Elimelech of Lizhensk Menachem Mendel of Kotzk (1787 – 1859), Hassidic Rebbe, and student of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa Menachem Mendil Hager...
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  • Jaffe family (category Surnames of Jewish origin)
    HaLevi of Zhovkva (1710–1802), who was the maternal grandfather of the Hasidic master, Simcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765–1827). The descendants of Mordecai...
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    future redeemer of the Jews. The concept of messianism originated in Judaism, and in the Hebrew Bible a messiah is a king or High Priest of Israel traditionally...
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    of Hasidim flocked to learn from him. Among his disciples were such Hasidic luminaries as Yaakov Yitzchak Rabinowicz ("the Holy Jew"), Simcha Bunim of...
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    Judah Leon Abravanel (category Italian people of Portuguese descent)
    philosopher, physician, and poet. His work Dialogues of Love was one of the most important philosophical works of his time. The Abravanel (or Abrabanel) family...
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  • hundreds of young Hasids flocked to Peshischa. After the rebbe Reb Bunim's death in 1827, Peshischa split into two factions. The more radical of which was...
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    Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler (category Philosophers of Judaism)
    disciple of one of the main leaders of the Musar movement, Rabbi Simcha Zissel Ziv, best known as the Alter (Elder) of Kelm. Eliyahu was orphaned of his mother...
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    Philo (redirect from Philo's view of God)
    Philo of Alexandria (/ˈfaɪloʊ/; Ancient Greek: Φίλων, romanized: Phílōn; Hebrew: יְדִידְיָה, romanized: Yəḏīḏyāh; c. 20 BCE – c.  50 CE), also called Philō...
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    Kolitz Confrontation: The Existential Thought of Rabbi J.B. SoloveitchikKtav, Hoboken, NJ, 1992 Simcha Krauss, The Rav on Zionism, Universalism and Feminism...
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  • Vurka (Hasidic dynasty) (category Hasidic dynasties of Poland)
    Kalish was a leading disciple of Simcha Bunim of Peshischa (1765–1827). Following Simcha Bunim's death, he led a part of the divided Peschischa community...
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    individual or group. The formulation of principles of faith that are universally recognized by all branches of Judaism remains undefined. There is no...
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    In Judaism, the concept of the Jews as chosen people (Hebrew: הָעָם הַנִבְחַר hāʿām hanīvḥar) is the belief that the Jews as a subset, via partial descent...
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    embody and channel the Divine flow of blessing to the world. Ṣedeq in Canaanite religion may have been an epithet of a god of the Jebusites. The Hebrew word...
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    name Benedictus de Spinoza, was a philosopher of Portuguese-Jewish origin. A forerunner of the Age of Enlightenment, Spinoza significantly influenced...
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    Nachmanides (category Authors of books on Jewish law)
    Moses ben Nachman (Hebrew: מֹשֶׁה בֶּן־נָחְמָן Mōše ben-Nāḥmān, "Moses son of Nachman"; 1194–1270), commonly known as Nachmanides (/nækˈmænɪdiːz/; Greek:...
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    "father of the rabbis of God", which seems to favor the pronunciation "Abrabanel".[citation needed] Abarbanel was born in Lisbon, Portugal, into one of the...
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    Hasdai ibn Shaprut (category Medieval Jewish physicians of Spain)
    bearing the title of vizier he was in reality minister of foreign affairs; he had also control of the customs and ship-dues in the port of Córdoba. Hasdai...
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