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    Pirkei Avot (Hebrew: פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת, romanized: pirqē aḇoṯ, lit. 'Chapters of the [Fore]fathers'; also transliterated as Pirqei Avoth or Pirkei Avos or...
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    technically designated as a homiletical exposition of the Mishnaic tractate Pirkei Avot, having for its foundation an older recension of that tractate. It also...
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  • is used thirteen times, the majority of which being in the Tractate Pirkei Avot. The Hebrew word Ḥasīd appears for the first time in the Torah (Deuteronomy...
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    corresponds exactly to the traits described in Pirkei Avot as "removing one from the world." See Pirkei Avot 2:11, 3:10, 4:21 and the Vilna Gaon's commentary...
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    2007. Machzor Vitri on Pirkei Avot, also found at Machzor Vitry מחזור ויטרי (in Hebrew). p. 549. Retrieved March 7, 2018. Pirkei Avot 5:21 Niddah 5:6 Niddah...
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    approach to defense mechanisms.": 639  In the ethics tractate known as Pirkei Avot (4:1), the Jewish scholar Shimon ben Zoma writes that true strength is...
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    completion, the Talmud became integral to Jewish scholarship. A maxim in Pirkei Avot advocates its study from the age of 15. This section outlines some of...
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  • Standard Bible Encyclopedia -". StudyLight.org. Retrieved 2023-12-05. "Pirkei Avot 3:2". www.sefaria.org. Retrieved 2023-12-05. "Pentateuchal Targumim"...
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    OCLC 59999963. Tanhuma Vaera 8, ed. Buber. Pirkei Avot 5:9. Mekhilta, Beshallaḥ, ed. Weiss, 4:60 (on Exodus 16:33). Pirkei deRabbi Eliezer 40; Sefer ha-Yashar;...
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  • Avot may refer to: Pirkei Avot, a tractate of the Mishna composed of ethical maxims of the Rabbis of the Mishnaic period Patriarchs (Bible), Abraham, Isaac...
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  • heart-soul in ancient Egyptian religion Ab., a Hebrew abbreviation related to Pirkei Avot, a compilation of teachings and maxims from the Mishnaic period Aitareya...
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  • their side. צָדוֹק Newman, p. 76 Abraham Geiger, Urschrift, pp. 20– Pirkei Avot 1:3 Avot of Rabbi Natan 5:2  This article incorporates text from a publication...
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    chapter of Kallah Rabbathi, a baraita compilation, is often appended to Pirkei Avot, as both are similar in style and content. Gemara Midrash Talmud Maimonides...
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  • Similarly, Elijah transmitted his authority to Elisha. According to Pirkei Avot, ordination was transmitted without interruption from Moses to Joshua...
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    tongs are of this type. A myth contained in the classical Jewish text Pirkei Avot states that the first pair of tongs was created by God right before God...
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  • Commentary (ed. Nehemiah Shmuel Rot), Jerusalem 2005, p. 59 (Hebrew) Pirkei Avot 1:1 et seq. Avot of Rabbi Natan 1 Berakhot 33a; Jerusalem Talmud, Berakhot 17a...
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  • an expression of blessing for long life. In Judaism, in the Talmud; Pirkei Avot (5:25), Rabbi Yehudah ben Teime gives the age of 18 as the appropriate...
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  • the phrase exist. Mentions of justice delayed and denied are found in Pirkei Avot: "Our Rabbis taught: ...The sword comes into the world, because of justice...
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  • teachings of Pirkei Avot appear in the Mishnaic tractate of Avot, the second-to-last tractate in the order of Nezikin in the Mishnah. Pirkei Avot is unique...
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    Simeon the Just (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    by John Betjeman in the Daily Herald (UK newspaper) as "interesting". Pirkei Avot 1:2 Josephus (Antiquities 12.2.5.) See lately B. Barc, Siméon le Juste:...
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  • Simeon ben Gamliel (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    as the teachings of the "House of Hillel". The following teaching in Pirkei Avot is attributed to Rabban Shimon: "Shimon his son said: All my days I have...
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  • Elisha ben Abuyah (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    Encyclopedia, 1901-1906) Saul Lieberman, Tosefta Kifshuta on Tosefta Hagiga 2:2 Pirkei Avot 4:20 Hayyim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Ravnitzky, eds., The Book...
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  • Temple service was considered to sustain the world[dubious – discuss] (Pirkei Avot 1:2). The idea of 36 righteous became fully fleshed out in later generations:...
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    Shishah Sidrei Mishnah: The Mishnah; Seder Nezikin. Vol. 4, Avodah Zarah Pirkei Avot Horayot. (Jerusalem: Eliner Library, 1994). An earlier translation was...
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  • exceptional sins aveira goreret aveira "one sin leads to another sin" (Pirkei Avot 4:2) Genesis 8:21 "Sacrifices and Offerings (Karbanot)". JewishVirtualLLibrary...
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    Judah ha-Nasi (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    Tehillim to Psalms 117:1 Pirkei Avot 2:1 Pirkei Avot 4:20 Makkot 10a; Tanhuma Ta'an. 7a Numbers 6:1–ff. Numbers 5:11–ff. Berakhot 63a Avot of Rabbi Natan (B)...
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    the evil eye. The evil eye is mentioned several times in the classic Pirkei Avot (Ethics of Our Fathers). In Chapter II, five disciples of Rabbi Yochanan...
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    Rabbi Akiva (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    speculation. Akiva's opinion about the creation of man is recorded in Pirkei Avot: How favoured is man, for he was created after an image; as Scripture...
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    author. These chapters are derived from Avot de-Rabbi Natan, Version B, Chapter 13, and their originality in Pirkei DeRabbi Eliezer is a matter of scholarly...
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  • Shmaya (tanna) (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    Dor we-Dorshaw, i.1, and Landau, p. 319 Yoma 71b Geschichte iii. 171 Pirkei Avot 1:9-10 Pesahim 66a Pesahim 70b Babylonian Talmud (Yoma 35b; Pesahim 66a)...
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