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    Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פִּרְקֵי דְּרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר, romanized: pirqe də-rabbi ʾeliʿezer, 'Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer'; abbreviated...
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    girls' mother. On the other hand, the early rabbinical commentary Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer and other rabbinic sources (Midrash Rabba and elsewhere) state...
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    Satan. The title of satan is also applied to him in the midrash Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer, where he is the chief of the fallen angels,: 257–60  and a twelve-winged...
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    commentaries offer several interpretations of Jacob's Ladder. In Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer 35:6-10, the ladder signified the four exiles the Jewish people...
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    Avot of Rabbi Natan, also known as Avot de-Rabbi Nathan (ARN) (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אבות דרבי נתן), the first and longest of the minor tractates...
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  • rabbinic literature, para-rabbinic literature (notably including Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer), and more. Jewish cosmology may be treated separately from biblical...
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  • ruled that Halacha[vague] is by Rabbi Eliezer but felt that, due to his unpopularity, he could only relay over Rabbi Eliezer's rulings in the name of the sages...
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    ". The Jewish Encyclopedia. New York: Funk & Wagnalls. Citing Pirkei De Rabbi Eliezer 22 "Sefer Ha-Yashar: Or, the Book of Jasher; Referred to in Joshua...
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    Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer 22; Genesis Rabba 30:7; Leviticus Rabba 27:5; "Sefer haYashar," l.c.; see also Flood in Rabbinical Literature Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer...
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    basis of his renewed argument for dependence of the TPsJ on the Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer composed in the 9th century, as well as the Chronicles of Moses...
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    Shmuel Midrash Tehillim Pesikta de-Rav Kahana Pesikta Rabbati Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer Seder Olam Rabbah Seder Olam Zutta Sefer HaAggadah Sefer haYashar (midrash)...
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  • tradition. The Book of Jubilees (11:13) names Abraham's mother Edna. Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer names her Atudai. There is probably no tradition going back to...
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    Sarah (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    S2CID 234296316. Sefer haYashar (Book of Jasher), section "Lek Leka". Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer 36 Genesis Rabbah 41:2 Genesis Rabbah 45:2 Genesis Rabbah 45:9...
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    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; Yalkut...
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    in Jewish tradition is in the Bereshit Rabba (5th century) and Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer (9th century). It appears that early Christian writers held the...
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    down. However, after Judah the Prince compiled the Mishnah around 200 CE, rabbis from Babylonia and the Land of Israel extensively studied the work. Their...
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    Lucifer (category Articles with German-language sources (de))
    any belief in rebel or fallen angels. In the 11th century, the Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer illustrates the origin of the "fallen angel myth" by giving two...
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    In general, where a literal interpretation contradicts rationality, the rabbis seek an allegorical explanation: "We are told to use our common sense to...
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    Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: אלפא-ביתא דרבי עקיבא, Alpha-Beta de-Rabbi Akiva), otherwise known as Letters of Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: אותיות דרבי עקיבא, Otiot de-Rabbi...
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    Vayikra, ed. Stettin, 1865, pp. 370 et seq.; see also Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer 10 Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer 10; Yalkut Shimoni 551  This article incorporates...
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    Nezikin in the Talmud. They include: Avot of Rabbi Natan (Hebrew: אבות דרבי נתן), an expansion of Pirkei Avot. Soferim (Hebrew: סופרים – Scribes). This...
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    passages in the Genesis Rabbah. About 70 are cited with the name of the Rabbi with whom they originated or whose explanation of the verse in question...
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    passage is reproduced in Rosh Hashana 31a and Avodah Zarah 9a Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer, 18:12 Zohar (1:117a); Zohar Vayera 119a World Book Encyclopedia...
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    Kabbalistic writings, Avot of Rabbi Natan, Pesikta Rabbati, Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, Pirke Rabbi Eliezer, Mishnat Rabbi Eliezer [b. Rabbi Yose ha-Galili], and in...
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    The Mekhilta of Rabbi Shimon ben Yochai (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: מכילתא דרבי שמעון בן יוחאי, romanized: Mǝkhilta -Rabbi Shimʿon ben Yoḥai) is midrash...
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    Christians) in 17:6, while a passage from Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer is cited on the authority of R. Eliezer b. Hyrcanus (19:12). These peculiarities indicate...
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    thirty-two rules or designates it as the "Baraita (or sections [pirkei]) of R. Eliezer b. Jose ha-Gelili". Also the Karaite Judah Hadassi, who incorporated...
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    Nar as-samum (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Within: A Rabbinic Traditions-History of the Samael Story in 'Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer'." Jewish Studies Quarterly, vol. 21, no. 2, 2014, pp. 153–175...
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  • Judaism and sneezing (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    Lord my help') or זרירך טוב ('may your sneezing be for good'). In Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer and Yelamdenu to Toledot, as quoted in the Arukh, it is said that...
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  • had adulterated with women before the Great Flood. A Midrash in Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer uses material unique to 1 Enoch in stating that the source of women...
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