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The first chapter and verse of Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Ancestors)—arguably serving as the introduction to Talmud—begins with a beautiful image of shalshelet ha-kabbalah (the chain of tradition). Here is how Talmud explains its origin, which it locates in the same experience of revelation that gave the People of Israel the Torah:
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May I have the understanding to cherish the journey and care for it with all my heart. —
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leader does not stand above the people. He serves the people, and he serves God. The
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Tzedek is built on the idea that there is a distinction between possession and ownership.
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We are thus obligated to affirm our own worth.33 “Just as a person believes in God,” the Hasidic master Rabbi Zadok Ha-Kohen of Lublin (1823–1900) teaches, “one must also34 believe in oneself.”35 How we see ourselves profoundly shapes who and what we become.
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Every rabbi had his “yoke”—a Hebrew idiom for his set of teachings, his way of reading Scripture, his take on how to thrive as a human being in God’s good world.
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The greatest miracle it guarantees us is inner peace in the face of life's most challenging adversity.
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R. Akiva is attributed with systematizing halakhah (Jewish law) by developing hermeneutics (methods of biblical interpretation) to interpret the Bible in the realms of both halakhah and midrash.