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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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    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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    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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    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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  • literature as one of the many abstract titles or references to God. "Pirkei Avot 3:2". www.sefaria.org. Retrieved 2023-12-05. "Pentateuchal Targumim"...
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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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    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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    Rabbi Akiva (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    [good or bad] works." – Mishnah (Avot 3:18) Akiva's opinion about the very creation of man is recorded in Pirkei Avot: How favoured is man, for he was...
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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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    "be submerged by the sins of the world", so much so that in the same Pirkei Avot it is explicitly taught that God has mercy on His creatures and on Creation...
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  • (Ma'ariv) prayers. Pharisaic wisdom was compiled in one book of the Mishna, Pirkei Avot. The Pharisaic attitude is perhaps[citation needed] best exemplified...
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  • 1715); Midrash Shemu'el (Midrash Shmuel), a detailed commentary on Pirkei Avot, (Venice, 1579, 1585, 1597; Cracow, 1594; Frankfort-on-the-Main, 1713)...
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  • Yohanan ben Zakkai (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    14–17) Rabbi Nathan, Abot, 31b Yerushalmi, Shemuel. Avot de-Rabbi Nathan (14:2). Jerusalem: Mesoret. Pirkei Abot 2:8 Hagigah 13a Soṭah 5:5 Numbers 3:22 Numbers...
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    Gamaliel (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
    and Gamaliel died during the mid-first century, this is unlikely. In Pirkei Avot, Gamaliel is credited as saying: Make a teacher for yourself and remove...
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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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    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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    31a; Avot of Rabbi Natan Avot of Rabbi Natan Lev. 19:18 Gen. 5:1; Sifra, Kedoshim, 4; Yerushalmi Nedarim 9 (41c); Genesis Rabbah 24 Pirkei Avot 1:18 Sanhedrin...
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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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  • 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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    that introduces the collection of his maxims in the Mishnaic treatise Pirkei Avot mentions Aaron HaKohen (the high priest) as the great model to be imitated...
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  • Pirkei Avot שֵׁם טוֹב, ש״ט (shem tov) - a good reputation; lit. good name. Esp. as כתר ש״ט "the crown of a good name" (citing Mishna, Tractate Avot 4:17)...
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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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    Pirkei Avot in the Ashurit script, with Babylonian vocalization according to Yemenite scribal custom...
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  • representative view is that "Everything is foreseen; yet free will is given" (Pirkei Avot 3:15). Based on this understanding, the problem is formally described...
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    Omer is also a conducive time to study the teaching of the Mishnah in Pirkei Avot 6:6, which enumerates the "48 ways" by which Torah is acquired. Rabbi...
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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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    afterlife. The Pharisees... subscribed to the theory of the afterlife." Pirkei Avot, 4:21. Ariel, David S. (1995). What Do Jews Believe?. New York: Shocken...
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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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