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17. R. Tzadok ha-Kohen of Lublin (1823-1900), Pri Tzaddik; Hanukkah no. 25

18. R. Judah Loew (Maharal, 1520-1609) of Prague, Derekh Hayyim on Avot

(Hartman ed.); vol. 1 p. 116

19. R. Moshe Aharon Pinto (?-1995), Kerem David on Avot; p. 18

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20. Minor Tractate Avot dRabbi Natan (Quoted in Kehati ed., p. 304)

Seeb.Megillah29a

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21. R. Eliyahu b. Shlomo Zalman (Vilna Gaon, 1720-1797), Commentary on Shir

ha-Shirim; 6:4

22. Rabbeinu Bachya b. Asher (1255-1840), Commentary on Avot; p. 6

23. R. Nahum Abraham, Darkei Avot; p. 43-44, no. 82

24. R. Avraham Dov of Avritsch (1765-1840), Bat Ayin; vol. 2 pp. 366-367

Seeb.Shabbat88a,iftheJewishpeoplewouldnothavereceivedtheTorahtheworldwouldhavebeen
returnedtochaos.Also,Deut8:5,ifIhadnotcreated(=br/e/ati)heavensandearth

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25.
Yitta Halberstam Mandelbaum
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Holy Brother: Inspiring Stories and
Enchanted Tales about Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach; p. 156

26. James Stewart, The Real Heroes Are Dead: A Love Story;
The New Yorker
2/11/02

27. Mark Twain,

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
; ch. 31

...and at last I struck the time I saved him by telling the men we had smallpox aboard, and he was
so grateful, and said I was the best friend old Jim ever had in the world, and the only one he's got
now; and then I happened to look around, and see that paper.
It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a trembling, because I'd got to
decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath,
and then says to myself:
"All right, then, I'll go to hell"- and tore it up.
It was awful thoughts, and awful words, but they was said. And I let them stay said; and never
thought no more about reforming. I shoved the whole thing out of my head; and said I would take
up wickedness again, which was in my line, being brung up to it, and the other warn't. And for a
starter, I would go to work and steal Jim out of slavery again; and if I could think up anything
worse, I would do that, too; because as long as I was in, and in for good, I might as well go the
whole hog.

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28. Jurgen Habermas,

The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere: An
Inquiry into a Category of Bourgeois Society
; (Oxford: MIT University Press, 1998)
pp. 45-46

29. R. Hayyim of Volozhin (1749-1821), Ruah Hayyim on Avot (uVecharta

bHayyim ed.); p. 39

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30. Amoz Oz, Interview with NPR.org 12.1.12 (Release of Jews and Books)
"For thousands of years, we Jews had nothing but books. We had no lands, we had no holy
sites, we had no magnificent architecture, we had no heroes. We had books, we had texts, and
those texts were always discussed around the family table. They became part of the family life,
and they traveled from one generation to the next not unchanged, not unchallenged, but
reinterpreted in each generation and reread by each generation."

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31. Rashi, Commentary on Avot

32. R. Tzadok ha-Kohen of Lublin, Tzidkat ha-Tzaddik, no. 185

Love is the absence of judgement

- The Dalai Lama

Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know

nothing about. Be kind, always
- Variously Attributed

33. John Watson [Ian MacLaren],

The Homely Virtues
& (London: Hodder
)Stoughton, 1903

34. R. Nahman of Breslov (1772-1810), Likkutei Moharan; 1:282

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