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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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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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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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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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 Olitsky, Kerry...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 2:4 (4d)...
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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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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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Similarly, Elijah transmitted his authority to Elisha. According to Pirkei Avot, ordination was transmitted without interruption from Moses to Joshua...
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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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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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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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Hebrew: קדש (Qādash), "holy"). The Pirkei Avot (Hebrew: פרקי אבות "Chapters of the Fathers") are a Mishnaic tractate of Avot, the second-to-last tractate in...
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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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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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Gamaliel (category Pirkei Avot rabbis)
Gamaliel died during the mid-first century, this is unlikely. In the Pirkei Avot, Gamaliel is credited as saying: Make a teacher for yourself and remove...
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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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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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rabbinic literature. 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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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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Meshullam ben Kalonymus (section Commentary on Avot)
(she'elot u-teshuvot), piyyutim (liturgical poetry), and a commentary on Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers). A famous letter of his to the Jews of Constantinople...
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oral tradition can be derived using them.... Other such sources include Pirkei Avot, the Babylonian Talmud, Rashi, and Shneur Zalman of Liadi. In the narrower...
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2012-10-22. See Seidenberg, David, "A Tikkun for Tikkun Olam?" commentary on Pirkei Avot, 1:2 Mishneh Torah, Hilkhot Sanhedrin 23:9 "Tikkun Olam: Repairing the...
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