Pirkei Avos: Ethics of the Fathers (Artscroll Mesorah Series) [Paperback]

Meir Zlotowitz (Editor), Nosson Scherman (Editor)

Book Description

Series: Artscroll Mesorah Series | Publication Date: June 1999

Language: English - Hebrew.

Avos is a book of ethics, honesty, and advice. But at its very beginning it tells us that even this part of Jewish life came from Sinai. All of that is part of Judaism. This volume presents a new translation and concise commentary on Avos, and contains an Overview that sheds new light on this book.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Hebrew --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 64 pages
• Publisher: Mesorah Pubns Ltd (June 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0899062067
• ISBN-13: 978-0899062068
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 6 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #422,193 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good pocket edition, December 19, 2002

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Jeff (Maryland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pirkei Avos: Ethics of the Fathers (Artscroll Mesorah Series) (Paperback)

This is a good translation of Perkei Avos. It doesn't have much (or really any) commentary but that is made up for by the fact that it is a pocket sized edition. Being without the commentary it isn't really good for serious study (though it isn't really meant as such). However, it is good for those times when a convenient portable copy is useful (at work, while traveling). Being a pocket sized book you can have it with you just about wherever you go.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The most meaningful ethical teachings, July 18, 2005

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Shalom Freedman "Shalom Freedman" (Jerusalem,Israel) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ethics of the Fathers: Pirkei Avos (ArtScroll mesorah series) (English and Hebrew Edition) (Hardcover)

I have reading and studying ' Pirke Avot' since I first read a translation of it my father, Alav Ha-Shalom had in our home. I have quite a few editions, and each one adds something. So too the Artscroll which is in the Siddur as the last part of the Shabbat Minchah section.
There are many insightful remarks in the Artscroll interpretation. But the greatness of Pirke Avot is of course that we can learn it and learn it again and again, and each time find a new meaning or way in understanding.
I had the privilege of learning ' Pirke Avot' a number of years with Rabbi Chaim Eisen who gave the most detailed and thorough reading of it imaginable. It took him thirteen years to get through it one time.
In any case this Artscroll should be of real help to those who know some Hebrew and need the English translation to give them the fuller meaning.