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from The Century Dictionary.

  • ’The Fathers,’ otherwise Pirk˙e aboth, ‘Chapters of the Fathers’: a treatise in the Mishnah consisting of maxims and aphorisms of ancient ‘fathers’ or rabbis: analogous to the Book of Proverbs in the Old Testament.

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