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The facsimile edition of a classic, now expanded and back in print
The renewed and growing interest in ethical wills today speaks to
the attraction they have to people who want to reflect on the
deeper mean-ing of their own lives and share what they have learned
with those they love. These very personal documents, with origins
in the Bible, grew into a particularly Jewish custom. Hebrew
Ethical Wills can teach us much about the past and gives us food
for thought for the present. First published in 1926, this expanded
edition includes new material: Lawrence Fine's excellent
introduction, passages from the autobiography of Gluckl of Hameln
(to give expression to a Jewish women's voice), and a bibliography
of state-of-the-art scholarship on the issues and themes of ethical
wills. The texts included, by Judah ibn Tibbon, Maimonides, the
Baal Shem Tov, and the Gaon of Vilna, among others, with Hebrew
facing pages, provide us with rich and intriguing evidence of
premodern notions of parenthood and childhood. And they offer
special insights into the faith and feelings of Jews across the
centuries, as well as inspiration for those who want to write their
own ethical wills today.
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