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  • 71STERNBERG, SARAH FRANKEL — (1838–1937), daughter of ḥasidic rabbi Joshua Heschel Teomim Frankel and wife of the ẓaddik Hayyim Samuel Sternberg of Chenciny, a disciple of the famed Seer of Lublin. Sternberg was one of the few women who attained any stature in the ḥasidic… …

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  • 72THEOLOGY — Introduction Defined by Richard Hooker, the Renaissance theologian, as the science of things divine, theology (from the Greek word theos, God, and logos, word, doctrine ) is a sustained, rational discourse on god , His nature, His relationship to …

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