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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.
Pirkei Avot is a compilation of Jewish ethics and related teachings the Rabbis of the Mishnaic period and part of didactic Jewish ethical musar literature. Because of its contents, it is also called Ethics of the Fathers. The teachings of Pirkei Avot appear in the Mishnaic tractate Avot, the second-to-last tractate in the order of Nezikin in ...
The sugya also informs Jewish moral reasoning for situations where the patient want a specific medicine, even if not otherwise medically indicated. For example, David ben Solomon ibn Abi Zimra (16th C.) wrote that, thanks to the principle of "The Heart Knows its Own Bitterness," a patient's treatment decisions should be honored, even for the ...
An ethical will (Hebrew: צוואה, romanized: tzava'ah, lit. 'will') is a document that passes ethical values from one generation to the next. Rabbis and Jewish laypeople have continued to write ethical wills during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. (Riemer) In recent years, the practice has been more widely used by the general public.
Jewish tradition mostly emphasizes free will, and most Jewish thinkers reject determinism, on the basis that free will and the exercise of free choice have been considered a precondition of moral life. [28] "Moral indeterminacy seems to be assumed both by the Bible, which bids man to choose between good and evil, and by the rabbis, who hold the ...
Pele Yoetz [1] is a book of Jewish Musar literature (Ethics) first published in Constantinople in 1824 by Rabbi Eliezer Papo. [2] The work is a "classical moral treatise", and compilation of essential Jewish concepts, organized with its topics following the order of the Hebrew alphabet.
In academic studies, Gershom Scholem began the critical investigation of Jewish mysticism, while in non-Orthodox Jewish denominations, Jewish Renewal and Neo-Hasidism, spiritualised worship. Many philosophers do not consider this a form of philosophy, as Kabbalah is a collection of esoteric methods of textual interpretation.
Gemara, rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah; Aggadah, a compendium of rabbinic texts that incorporates folklore, historical anecdotes, moral exhortations, and practical advice in various spheres, from business to medicine. Tosefta, a compilation of the Jewish oral law from the late 2nd century, the period of the Mishnah