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Each age will have to reconsider it.12 One can safely assume that as long as the American people continue to enshrine the Declaration , its truths will continue in various guises to be the ultimate source of the most fundamental ...
Each age will have to reconsider it.12 One can safely assume that as long as the American people continue to enshrine the Declaration , its truths will continue in various guises to be the ultimate source of the most fundamental ...
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Therefore , one who refuses to give his wife a get ( when the court orders him to do so ) , since ( we assume that ) he wants to remain a member of the people of Israel and wants to perform all the mizvot and to desist from performing a ...
Therefore , one who refuses to give his wife a get ( when the court orders him to do so ) , since ( we assume that ) he wants to remain a member of the people of Israel and wants to perform all the mizvot and to desist from performing a ...
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Rabba's answer is , of course , far from being a matter of self - evident logic . More precious to whom ? Certainly one's life is more precious to oneself than the life of any other man . Rabba's answer is logical only if we assume that ...
Rabba's answer is , of course , far from being a matter of self - evident logic . More precious to whom ? Certainly one's life is more precious to oneself than the life of any other man . Rabba's answer is logical only if we assume that ...
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| Title | The Ethical in the Jewish and American Heritage Volume 4 of Moreshet series : studies in Jewish history, literature and thought Volume 4 of Moreshet series |
| Author | Simon Greenberg |
| Publisher | Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1977 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 21 Dec 2006 |
| ISBN | 0873340027, 9780873340021 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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