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About This Text
Author: Eliezer Papo
Composed: Silistra, Bulgaria, c.1815 – c.1823 CE
Pele Yoetz is a book of Jewish Musar literature (Ethics). It is not limited to abstract ethical precepts and esoteric concepts; but 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. The book offers advice on human interrelationships such as between parent and child, husband and wife, employer and employee. It speaks to the heart as well as the mind. It is comprised of short chapters organized according to the Hebrew alphabet.