Front matter
Joseph I. (Joseph Isaac) Gorfinkle translation · Edition 2
Produced by Dan Dyckman
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The source book for this e-text included an Introduction, Preface, and extensive footnotes. These are omitted in this text, which consists of only the translation of the Pirkei Avot. A full version of this e-text may be found as a different entry in the Gutenburg Project archives.
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LIBRARY OF JEWISH CLASSICS-III. ________________________________________
The Sayings of the Jewish Fathers
[pirkei avot] "PIRKE ABOT" ________________________________________
Translated, with an Introduction and Notes
BY JOSEPH I. GORFINKLE, Ph.D.
Author of "The Eight Chapters of Maimonides on Ethics"
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SECOND EDITION
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SAYINGS OF THE FATHERS
One of the following chapters is read on each Sabbath from the Sabbath after Passover until the Sabbath before New Year.
All Israel have a portion in the world to come, and it is said, "And thy people shall be all righteous; they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified."