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should be given . All poor and all strangers have an equal right to them . Does converting the giving of charity into a legal responsibility rob it of its moral significance ? We do not identify that part of the income tax which the ...
should be given . All poor and all strangers have an equal right to them . Does converting the giving of charity into a legal responsibility rob it of its moral significance ? We do not identify that part of the income tax which the ...
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The Rabbis justify the validation of a get given under compulsion on the principle that " it is a mizvah ( and therefore one is in duty bound ) to obey the words of the wise . " To which Rashi adds , " We have the right ( or the duty ) ...
The Rabbis justify the validation of a get given under compulsion on the principle that " it is a mizvah ( and therefore one is in duty bound ) to obey the words of the wise . " To which Rashi adds , " We have the right ( or the duty ) ...
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For the people of Israel is the only people to whom a land was given the land of Canaan - by God , the one and the supreme Creator of the world and of man . And that which God had once given , was given forever " ( translation from the ...
For the people of Israel is the only people to whom a land was given the land of Canaan - by God , the one and the supreme Creator of the world and of man . And that which God had once given , was given forever " ( translation from the ...
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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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