Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer, Volume I Pre-Existence and In Taking Bithnua

and In Taking Bithnua

(398 pages)

' It resembles in tendency and spirit these mediæval compilations

Gaster and published in 1927

The answers are out there

Pirke de Rabbi Eliezer, Volume I Pre-Existence and In Taking BithnuaPirke De Rabbi Eliezer (the Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer the Great) according to the text of the manuscript belonging to Abraham Epstein of Vienna, translated and annotated with introduction and indices by Gerald Friedlander. Eliezer lived in the latter half of the first century C. E. and in the first decades of the second century. He is said to be unorthodox in revealing certain mysteries which were reputed to have been taught in early rabbinical