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| General introduction | |
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| Foreword and acknowledgements | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Scripture and tradition | |
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| Liturgy | |
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| Tales of the saints and scholars | |
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| Religious law | |
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| Ethical literature | |
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| Philosophy and theology | |
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| Mysticism | |
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| Modern movements, modern thinkers | |
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| Religion and politics | |
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| Society and the Jews | |
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| Chronology | |
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| Scripture and tradition | |
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| The Chain of Tradition | |
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| Mishnah, Pirqei Avot 1:1-18 and 2:8 | |
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| From Moses to the Tanna'im | |
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| The Baraita of Rabbi Ishmael | |
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| The thirteen principles by which the Torah is expounded | |
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| Bible commentaries | |
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| Targum Pesudo-Jonathan to Genesis 22:1-19 | |
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| The sacrifice of Isaac | |
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| Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael to Exodus 19-20 | |
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| The giving of the Torah on Sinai | |
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| Liturgy | |
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| Weekday liturgy | |
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| The Shema and its benedictions | |
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| The Amidah (Shemoneh Esreh or Eighteen Benedictions) | |
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| Sabbath liturgy | |
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| Qiddush for Sabbath evening | |
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| Havdalah service for the end of Sabbath | |
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| Passover liturgy | |
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| Two extracts from the Passover Haggadah | |
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| Tales of the saints and scholars | |
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| Honi the Rainmaker (Mishnah, Ta'anit 3:8) | |
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| Haninah ben Dosa the Healer (Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 34b) | |
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| Rabban Yohanan ben Zakkai answers a gentile objector (Pesiqta deRav Kahana 4:7) | |
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| Rabbi Eliezer goes to study with Yohanan ben Zakkai (Avot deRabbi Natan A,6) | |
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| The heavenly voice (bat qol) is ruled out of court (Babylonian Talmud, Bava Mezi'a 59a-b) | |
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| Moses visits Rabbi Aquiva's academy (Babylonian Talmud, Menahot 29b) | |
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| The martyrdom of Rabbi Aqiva (Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 61b) | |
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| Religious law | |
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| The Talmud | |
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| Berakhot 8:1-8 | |
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| Differences between the House of Shammai and the House of Hillel | |
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| Shabbat 73a-75b and 49b | |
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| Work forbidden on the Sabbath | |
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| TheShulhan Arukh | |
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| Hoshen Mishpat 26:1-6 | |
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| Prohibition against resorting to non-Jewish courts | |
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| Yoreh De'ah 335:1-10 | |
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| Laws regarding visiting the sick | |
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| Qizzur Shulhan Arukh36:1-28 | |
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| Laws regarding the salting of meat | |
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| Ethical literature | |
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| Pirqei Avot | |
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| Miscellaneous moral maxims | |
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| The Duties of the Heart, Gate 5, ch.5 | |
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| The fight against the evil inclination | |
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| The Path of the Upright, ch. 13 | |
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| On abstinence | |
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| Philosophy and theology | |
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| The Book of Beliefs and Opinions, Introduction 6 | |
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| The relationship between faith and reason | |
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| The Kuzari, 5:14-19 | |
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| The teachings of the philosophers and the theologians | |
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| Commentary on the Mishnah, Sanhedrin 10 (Heleq) | |
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| The thirteen fundamental principles of the Jewish faith | |
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| Mystical literature | |
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| Ma'aseh Bere'shit | |
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| Sefer Yezirah | |
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| The mysteries of creation | |
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| Ma'aseh Merkavah | |
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| Heikhalot Rabbati15:1-22:2 | |
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| The ascent to God's heavenly throne | |
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| Qabbalah | |
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| The Ein Sof and the ten Sefirot (Zohar, Bo, II 42b-43a [Ra'aya Meheimna]) | |
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| Torah (Zohar, Be-ha'alotkha, III 152a) | |
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| The 'other side' [sitra ahra] (Zohar, Terumah, II 173a) | |
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| Tiqqun (Zohar, Terumah, II 155a) | |
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| Exile and redemption (Zohar, Aharei Mot, III77b andZohar, Bo, II 40b [Ra'aya Meheimna]) | |
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| The spiritual constitution of man (Zohar, Lekh, 183b) | |
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| Modern movements, modern thinkers | |
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| Hasidism | |
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| Shivhei Ha-Besht | |
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| The Besht reveals himself to the sect of the Great Hasidim | |
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| Letter of Zecharish Mendel of Jaroslav | |
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| The spiritual exercises of the Zaddiqim | |
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| Reform | |
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| The Pittsburgh platform, 1885 | |
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| The Columbus platform, 1937 | |
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| Solomon B. Freehof | |
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| Responsum concerning the use of an anaesthetic during c | |