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The six chapters of Avot, a tractate of Mishnayot.
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Why is it important that God created the first pair of tongs?
It says in Pirkei Avot 5:6 that God made the first pair of tongs immediately before creation.
Could not one have made tongs out of bone or wood wrapped in leather or made with a metal, such as gold, …
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Why the wait between God's creation of the tongs to the first metalworker?
It says in Pirkei Avot 5:6 that God made the first pair of tongs immediately before creation.
The first person to make metal tools was Tubal Cain, who lived in the generation before the flood. Why t …