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For in setting his mind firm like a jutting cliff, our father Eleazar broke the maddening waves of the emotions.
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O priest, worthy of the priesthood, you neither defiled your sacred teeth nor profaned your stomach, which had room only for reverence and purity, by eating defiling foods.
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O man in harmony with the law and philosopher of divine life!
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Such should be those who are administrators of the law, shielding it with their own blood and noble sweat in sufferings even to death.
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You, father, strengthened our loyalty to the law through your glorious endurance, and you did not abandon the holiness that you praised, but by your deeds you made your words of divine philosophy credible.
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