Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers
Joseph I. Gorfinkle · English
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Pirke Avot: The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers
Joseph I. Gorfinkle · English
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PURPOSE The original aim of Abot was to show the divine source and authority of the traditional law revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai, and to demonstrate its continuity from Moses through Joshua, the elders, and the men of the Great Synagogue, down to those Rabbis who lived during the period between 200 B.C.E. to 200 C.E. Loeb maintains that Abot was originally a composition of the Pharisaic Rabbis who wished to indicate that the traditions held and expounded by them, and which the Saddu
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