amot

My God insists that we give a damn -- that we wake up to the suffering of the widow, the orphan and the stranger, that we recognize that the bond of human connectedness extends beyond our own dalet amot -- our own immediate family and circle of friends.

Sharon Brous: Defying Despair: Why I Believe 2008

The way I understood Matthue, the zine aims to be as cool as possible, while still staying within what I like to call “the 700 amot of halacha”.

call for submissions — Mezuza zine | Jewschool 2007

Thinking the this *portion of the whole* is the *whole itself* a myopia that, in the theological realm, leads to avoda zara is the kind of thing that leads to those Chabad shluchim who go off the wall, attempting to steer all Jews they encounter to their particular daled amot, frum and non-frum alike, completely ignorant of what halachic Judaism is like outside of Crown Heights.

And now for something completely different | Jewschool 2006

Enclosed you have statement of your act showing amot. due me this date of $68 54/100.

Augusta County: Robert Cowan to John H. McCue, November 18, 1857 Robert Cowan 1857

Now if you can let me have the above amot., you will confer a great favor on

Augusta County: Robert Cowan to John H. McCue, November 18, 1857 Robert Cowan 1857

-- A note of mine from Philda. will fall due in bank in a few days & I lack considerably of the amot. to pay it with.

Augusta County: Robert Cowan to John H. McCue, November 18, 1857 Robert Cowan 1857

We hope on examining the above account, you will remit the amot. on a running account we gave a credit of Twelve months but never on our individual article, and this was Specially order from the north at your request respecty Your mo obt st

Letters to and from Jefferson, 1825 1825

The absent Members having returned, a board was held the 6th.inst. at which it was determined that it would lend immediately to the University the Sum of Forty thousand dollars, for which amot. a Single bond may be prepared.

Letters to and from Jefferson, 1823 1823

Sent by Mr. Jenkes dentist. wrote to Joseph Knode of Jacob, Orleans Alegany County enclosed him a note on Jacob Seise amot.

Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961

This is what happens when you believe that your own movement — your immediate 4 amot — is the be-all and end-all of Judaism.

An interesting letter | Jewschool 2007