Copyright © 1971

By The Jewish Publication Society of America
All rights reserved

First edition 1971 / Second edition 1975
ISBN 0-8276-0003-8

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 77-151316
Manufactured in the United States of America

Designed by
Sol Calvin Cohen

The author wishes to express
his sincere appreciation to the following,
who have kindly granted permission
to use their copyrighted material:

The Soncino Press Limited, London, England,
for selections from THE BABYLONIAN TALMUD,
translated under the editorship of Isidore Epstein, 1935-1950;
and selections from MIDRASH RABBAH,
translated under the editorship
of H. Freedman and Maurice Simon, 1939-1951.

All rights reserved by The Soncino Press Limited.

Yale University Press, New Haven,
for selections from
THE MIDRASH ON PSALMS,
translated by William G. Braude, 1959.

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