The evolution of Yiddish literature, as seen in the book No Star Too Beautiful, is much like the evolution of life itself. ... God protects Abraham and eventually makes him the father of the Jewish nation. ... As we progress through Part one, we come to stories from The Mayse Book, printed in 1602. ... Other stories from The Mayse Book teach the same lessons through the use of "common people." ... In roughly 500 years of literature covered in this analysis, we see the beginnings of written Yiddish literature with stories from the Torah. ...

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God is also the creator of the world, and the Book of Genesis says that he created in six days and rested on the seventh. ... Tradition holds an important place in the Jewish religion, many of which are contained in a book of interpretations of sacred writings called the Talmud. ... Judaism, although influential, should not be confused with Zionism; the political movement founded in 1897 which sought and achieved the establishment of a Jewish nation ...

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"AND IN THE VERY PLACE WHERE IT WAS SAID TO THEM, YOU ARE NOT MY PEOPLE, THERE THEY SHALL BE CALLED CHILDREN OF THE LIVING GOD," GENTILES, WHO DID NOT STRIVE FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS, HAVE ATTAINED IT, THAT IS, RIGHTEOUSNESS THROUGH FAITH; BUT ISRAEL, WHO DID STRIVE FOR THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT IS BASED ON THE LAW, DID NOT SUCCEED IN FULFILLING THAT LAW [ROMANS 9] "In proclaiming his Christian message Paul stressed that the Jewish nation had been rejected by God, and the new Covenant had superseded the old," said David Cohn-Sherbok, in his book The Crucified Jew. "In these ways the New Testament lai...

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