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However , the fact that one feels free to harbor and implement those whims , loyalties , and convictions , and can , within very broad and generous limits , do so with impunity as an American , is a primary component of the meaning that ...
However , the fact that one feels free to harbor and implement those whims , loyalties , and convictions , and can , within very broad and generous limits , do so with impunity as an American , is a primary component of the meaning that ...
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We know how reluctant the Rabbis always were to reject completely the literal meaning of the biblical text.31 But that certainly cannot be the whole answer . As we shall note later in this inquiry , rabbinic enactments very often varied ...
We know how reluctant the Rabbis always were to reject completely the literal meaning of the biblical text.31 But that certainly cannot be the whole answer . As we shall note later in this inquiry , rabbinic enactments very often varied ...
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Do we have the right to assume that its framers were fully aware that the document could bear meanings beyond those ... It [ the Constitution ] speaks not only in the same words , but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke ...
Do we have the right to assume that its framers were fully aware that the document could bear meanings beyond those ... It [ the Constitution ] speaks not only in the same words , but with the same meaning and intent with which it spoke ...
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| Title | The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage Volume 4 of Moreshet series : studies in Jewish history, literature and thought Volume 4 of Moreshet series |
| Author | Simon Greenberg |
| Publisher | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0873340027, 9780873340021 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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