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The Torah as a Teaching That the Torah is a teaching , Jewish sages have maintained throughout the ages . Whatever else they are , its tales are meant to instruct . But they are not all - inclusive . The basis for their selection is ...
The Torah as a Teaching That the Torah is a teaching , Jewish sages have maintained throughout the ages . Whatever else they are , its tales are meant to instruct . But they are not all - inclusive . The basis for their selection is ...
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Passive People , Passive Leader When Moses ascended onto the heights [ to receive the Torah ) , he found the Holy One , blessed be He , sitting there tying wreaths [ or crowns ] to the letters . He said to Him : " Master of the Universe ...
Passive People , Passive Leader When Moses ascended onto the heights [ to receive the Torah ) , he found the Holy One , blessed be He , sitting there tying wreaths [ or crowns ] to the letters . He said to Him : " Master of the Universe ...
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Where hast Thou said it , " Moses asked Him ; " in Thy Torah ? And to whom hast Thou given Thy Torah ? To them or to me ? " " Upon the mount I com- manded : " Thou shalt have no other gods before Me , ' and at the foot of the mount they ...
Where hast Thou said it , " Moses asked Him ; " in Thy Torah ? And to whom hast Thou given Thy Torah ? To them or to me ? " " Upon the mount I com- manded : " Thou shalt have no other gods before Me , ' and at the foot of the mount they ...
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Contents
Introduction Why Me? Why Moses? Why Leadership? | 1 |
Passive People Passive Leader | 27 |
Pharaoh What Not to Do | 62 |
Copyright | |
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| Title | The Nursing Father: Moses as a Political Leader |
| Author | Aaron B. Wildavsky |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | University of Alabama Press, 1984 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 30 Jul 2010 |
| ISBN | 0817301682, 9780817301682 |
| Length | 262 pages |
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