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Pele Yoetz

The Pele Yoetz is a book of Musar literature first published in Constantinople in 1824 by Eliezer Papo. The work is a "classical moral treatise", and compilation of essential Jewish concepts, organized with its topics following the order of the Hebrew alphabet. It is written in a style that "speaks to the heart as well as the mind".

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The Pele Yoetz (Hebrew: פלא יועץ)1 is a book of Musar literature (ethics in Rabbinic Judaism) first published in Constantinople in 1824 by Eliezer Papo.2 The work is a "classical moral treatise", and compilation of essential Jewish concepts, organized with its topics following the order of the Hebrew alphabet. It is written in a style that "speaks to the heart as well as the mind".1

The Musar that it presents is not limited to abstract ethical precepts and esoteric concepts; rather it encompasses all aspects and phases of day-to-day Jewish living: the ritual as well as the ethical, the mundane as well as the sublime. 1 It also offers advice on human interrelationships such as between parent and child, husband and wife, employer and employee.

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