Definitions
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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This has become aboth race and people will just vote for her becasue of her being white.
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Testament see Feibig, _Pirque 'aboth_, especially the
Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle
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Paul Fiebig, _Pirque 'aboth, Der Mischnahtraktat Spruche der
Pirke Avot Sayings of the Jewish Fathers Joseph I. Gorfinkle
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