Pirke Avot

by Chaim Stern

1997 270 pages eng

The most popular tractate of the Mishnah, and thus the most widely known part of the Talmud, is undoubtedly that of Avot, "Fathers." It is the only tractate to have entered the prayerbook whole, and is recited and studied, chapter by chapter, on spring and summer Sabbaths. It has often been translat…