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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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  • natural part of God's creation. According to the Talmudic tractate Avot de-Rabbi Natan, a boy's evil inclination is greater than his good inclination until...
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    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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    other publishers. The Yale Judaica Series includes translations of Avot de-Rabbi Natan and Semahot; the former has been translated at least three other...
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  • Sukkah 28a Avot of Rabbi Natan 6:3; Pirke De-Rabbi Eliezer 1+ Avot of Rabbi Natan 4:5; Gittin 56 Avot of Rabbi Natan 14:6; Sanhedrin 17b Sanhedrin 36b Jerusalem...
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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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    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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    The Jerusalem Gemara contains the written discussions of generations of rabbis of the Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina at Tiberias and Caesarea....
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    and there was morning, the sixth day." (Genesis 1:31)—Midrash: Rabbi Nahman said in Rabbi Samuel's name: "Behold, it was very good" refers to the Good Desire;...
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    for the first time by B. Koenigsberger, 1894 Avot deRabbi Natan ch. 18; see also Gittin 67a Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, Parah, ed. S. Buber, 39b Siegfried...
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    4:16 Kiddushin 40b Esther Rabbah 6:2,5 Avot of Rabbi Natan 2 Pirkei Avot 2:15 Pirkei Avot 2:16 Avot de-Rabbi Nathan 11:1 Tosefta Shabbat 14:4 Shabbat 116a...
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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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    described as one's baser instincts. According to the Talmudic tractate Avot de-Rabbi Natan, a boy's evil inclination is greater than his good inclination until...
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    The Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael (Hebrew: ברייתא דרבי ישמעאל) is a baraita which explains the 13 rules of Rabbi Ishmael, and their application, by means of...
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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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    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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    great step forward" for its time. This edition was reprinted in 1970 by Rabbi Saul Lieberman, with additional notes and corrections. In 1955, Saul Lieberman...
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    decide whether an aggada is to be taken literally or not" (Carmell, 2005). Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746), discusses this two-tiered, literal-allegorical...
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    Soferim. He drew from the ethical and historical aggadah, such as Abot de-Rabbi Natan, Tanna debe Eliyahu (Rabbah and Zuṭa), Derech Eretz[which?], Massechet...
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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...
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    Talmud (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    1880s, rabbi Raphael Natan Nata Rabbinovitz engaged in the historical study of Talmud Bavli in his Diqduqei Soferim. Since then many Orthodox rabbis have...
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    literature, in its broadest sense, is the entire spectrum of works authored by rabbis throughout Jewish history. The term typically refers to literature from...
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    and finally, of course, the so-called Baraita de-Rabbi Yishma'el (beginning). The so-called "Mekilta de-Millu'im" or "Aggadat Millu'im" to Leviticus 8:1-10...
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    drew upon the Mishnah, Tosefta, Mekhilta, Sifre, Pesikta de-Rav Kahana, Avot de-Rabbi Natan, Bereshit Rabbah, Vayikra Rabbah, Ecclesiastes Rabbah, Canticles...
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    650–900 CE Avot de-Rabbi Natan Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer Tanna Devei Eliyahu Alphabet of Sirach Ecclesiastes Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah...
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    Avot of Rabbi Natan, ed. Schechter, p. 164; compare Kohler, Testament of Job, 5:6-8, in Kohut Memorial Volume, pp. 264–295 Eduyot 2:10 Avot of Rabbi Natan...
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    Nissim ben Jacob and Samuel ibn Naghrillah refer to it as the Mekhilta de-Rabbi Yishmael, thus ascribing the authorship to Ishmael. Maimonides likewise...
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    Hebrew is very purely written, and the translator is an eminent scholar. — Rabbi H. V. Nathan, Kingston Synagogue, Jamaica, April 14, 1840 Subsequently,...
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    Onkelos. Rabbi Yirmeya said, and some say Rabbi Ḥiyya bar Abba: The translation of the Torah was composed by Onkelos the convert based on Rabbi Eliezer...
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    650–900 CE Avot de-Rabbi Natan Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer Tanna Devei Eliyahu Alphabet of Sirach Ecclesiastes Rabbah Shir HaShirim Rabbah Deuteronomy Rabbah...
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