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Posted on: Saturday, February 06, 2010 4:46 AM
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Subject: Road to Mecca
| The Road To Mecca Leopold Weiss Adapted from The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad * *The Road To Mecca Leopold Weiss As a child, Leopold Weiss received a thorough grounding in Hebrew religious lore. At his father’s insistence, he spent long hours poring over the sacred scriptures, and by the age of thirteen he could read and speak Hebrew with great fluency. He studied the Old Testament – the Mishna and Gemara – in its original form and became knowledgeable with the text and commentaries of the Talmud. He then immersed himself in the intricacies of Biblical exegesis, called Targum, just as |
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