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To seek fulfillment of our divine image is our primary duty to ourselves . The happiness that inheres in the striving and the achievement is the reward which a rational being will experience upon this earth and for which , Jewish ...
To seek fulfillment of our divine image is our primary duty to ourselves . The happiness that inheres in the striving and the achievement is the reward which a rational being will experience upon this earth and for which , Jewish ...
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Even as the Ten Commandments constitute a divine communication granted to the whole people of Israel at the beginning of its history in the Sinai desert , so do I believe that the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence ...
Even as the Ten Commandments constitute a divine communication granted to the whole people of Israel at the beginning of its history in the Sinai desert , so do I believe that the opening paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence ...
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Wisdom is the chief and leader of the divine class of goods , and next follows temperance ; and from the union of these two with courage springs justice , and the fourth in the scale of virtue is courage " ( PlatoJowett ...
Wisdom is the chief and leader of the divine class of goods , and next follows temperance ; and from the union of these two with courage springs justice , and the fourth in the scale of virtue is courage " ( PlatoJowett ...
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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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