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  • From a collection of modified shipping containers, coalition officers will monitor ship traffic and coordinate the movement of coalition warships circling "Kaaot" and "Abot," as the military has nicknamed the two terminals.

    U.S. Digs In to Guard Iraq Oil Exports 2007

  • M.imonides, Commentary on the M.shnah, Abot, ed.M. Rabinowitz (Jerusalem: M.sad ha-Rav Kook, 1961)

    Samuel Ibn Tibbon Robinson, James T. 2006

  • As early as the Abot (eighth or ninth century) we find R. Nathan (Ch. 31) comparing every part of the human body to some feature of the earth, the hair to the forests, the bones to the wood, the lungs to the wind.

    MACROCOSM AND MICROCOSM GEORGE BOAS 1968

  • _Abot_ is found not only in all editions of the _Mishnah_ and the

    Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle

  • _Einleitung_, p. 82 _et seq. _, for the lives of the authorities mentioned in _Abot_ and for bibliographies.

    Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle

  • During the middle of the ninth century, _Abot_ and its _Baraita_ were thus liturgically used.

    Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle

  • It is apparent from the literary construction of _Abot_ that it has been edited several times, and that, in its earliest form, the

    Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle

  • This accounts for the presence in _Abot_ of the body of maxims of the six generations of the school of Hillel, designated above as section B 1, and which was very properly introduce after the aphorisms of Hillel and of his contemporary, Shammai.

    Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle

  • By the middle of the ninth century it formed a part of the treatise _Abot_.

    Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle

  • Pirke Abot_, in _Bibliotheque de l'ecole des hautes Etudes, Sciences religeuses_, vol. I, pp. 307-322 (Paris, 1889).

    Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle

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