Structure
The book consists of three parts:
1. Maamar Shalosh Shevuos (Treatise about the Three Oaths), which is also the main part of the book, is a classical Judaic sources and citations book sourced and interpreted by Teitelbaum on everything about those Three Oaths.
This teaching is originally based on the Talmud in tractate Ketubot 111a, which discusses a passage from the Song of Songs in the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) in which God made the Israelites promise "to wait for Him before arousing his love" as "King Solomon in Song of Songs thrice adjured the daughters of Jerusalem not to arouse or bestir the love until it is ready." The Talmud explains that we are bound by three strong oaths mentioned in Ketubot 111a - 1. that the Jewish people are not allowed to ascend to Eretz Yisrael by force; 2. that the Jewish people are not allowed to rebel against the nations of the world; 3. that the Jewish people may not by their sins delay the coming of Moshiach, the Jewish messiah.
2. Maamar Yishuv Eretz Yisroel (Treatise about settling the Land of Israel), which establishes all halachic concerns regarding Jews emigrating to Israel, known as Aliyah.
3. Maamar Loshon HaKodesh (Treatise about the holy tongue). That it is forbidden for Jews today to speak Modern Hebrew. This was written as a personal answer to the chief rabbi of Montreal at the time, Rabbi Pinchas Hirschsprung, and it was later added into this book.
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