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- Pirke Avot: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life
- Book
- 2010
- Published by: Jewish Publication Society
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In Pirke Avot: Timeless Wisdom for Modern Life, William Berkson provides a fresh, insightful, and exciting approach to this central and compelling classical Jewish ethical text. He, with the assistance of Menachem Fisch, provides a clear and comprehensible translation of the tractate, and his historical commentary draws insightfully on the sources of Jewish tradition for its explication of its sayings. Most significantly, Berkson brings the ideas found in Avot into conversation with a wide variety of philosophical, psychological, and religious perspectives so that the reader can drink deeply from the wellsprings of wisdom that Avot offers for contemporary persons – Jews and non-Jews alike. This book is a most important contribution to Jewish conversation in our time! "-- Rabbi David Ellenson, President Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religon
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. vii
- Note on the Text
- p. ix
- Abbreviations
- p. xi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-8
- Chapter One
- pp. 9-52
- Chapter Two
- pp. 53-103
- Chapter Three
- pp. 105-131
- Chapter Four
- pp. 133-160
- Chapter Five
- pp. 161-180
- Appendices
- Avot: Complete Text
- pp. 183-209
- Kinyan Torah
- pp. 210-219
- Commentary Topics
- pp. 221-225
- Subject Index
- pp. 227-228
Additional Information
ISBN
9780827611207
Related ISBN(s)
9780827609174
MARC Record
OCLC
794924282
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No