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Pirkei Avot with Bukharian Judeo-Persian translation. Pirkei Avot (Hebrew: פִּרְקֵי אָבוֹת, romanized: pirqē aḇoṯ, lit. 'Chapters of the [Fore]fathers'; also transliterated as Pirqei Avoth or Pirkei Avos or Pirke Aboth), which translates to English as Chapters of the Fathers, is a compilation of the ethical teachings and maxims from Rabbinic Jewish tradition.
Portrait of Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev Mausoleum of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak in the old cemetery in Berdychiv, May 2002. Signature. Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev (Levi Yitzchok Derbarmdiger (compassionate in Yiddish) or Rosakov) (1740–1809), also known as the holy Berdichever, and the Kedushas Levi, was a Hasidic master and Jewish leader.
Avos may refer to: Avos, a tractate of the Jewish Talmud (commonly referred to as Pirkei Avos) Avos, a ship in an expedition by Nikolai Rezanov which became a basis for the 1978 Russian rock opera Juno and Avos. Juno and Avos; Avos, the plural for avo, which is 1/100 of a Macao pataca, a monetary unit of Macao; AVOS Systems, an Internet company
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Some references in the article don't seem to match the English versions I have read, but they don't agree with each other. For example, "It is not incumbent upon you to complete the work, but neither are you at liberty to desist from it" is listed as 2:21 in the article, but the Chabad version has this at 2:16 and the Charles Taylor translation has this at 2:19.
Zera Shimshon (Hebrew: זרע שמשון) is a Jewish text [1] [2] written by Rabbi Shimshon Chaim Nachmani, an Italian [3] kabbalist who lived during the 18th century (died 1779).
If Not Now, When? won the Campiello and Viareggio prizes the year of its publication. The critic Adam Kirsch rates Levi's Holocaust writing including If Not Now, When? as his primary literary contribution, but doesn't see the book as one of Levi's classics, like If This Is a Man, The Drowned and the Saved and The Periodic Table.
Each Torah portion consists of two to six chapters to be read during the week. There are 54 weekly portions or parashot.Torah reading mostly follows an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the divisions corresponding to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.