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Talmud
Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:38:17

The Talmud (/ˈtɑːlmʊd, -məd, ˈtæl-/; Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד, romanized: Talmūḏ, 'study' or 'learning') is the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, and second...

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Jerusalem Talmud
Minggu, 2026-06-07 22:02:39

The Jerusalem Talmud (Hebrew: תַּלְמוּד יְרוּשַׁלְמִי, romanized: Talmud Yerushalmi, often Yerushalmi for short), also known as the Talmud of the Land of...

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Jesus in the Talmud
Selasa, 2026-05-12 12:45:32

are several passages in the Talmud which are believed by some scholars to be references to Jesus. The name used in the Talmud is "Yeshu" (ישו‎), the Aramaic...

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Yeshiva
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 02:36:23

institution focused on the study of Rabbinic literature, primarily the Talmud and halacha (Jewish law), while Torah and Jewish philosophy are studied...

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Criticism of the Talmud
Selasa, 2026-05-05 22:10:35

Criticism of the Talmud includes criticisms and attacks on the Talmud's doctrines, laws, and authority. Historian Michael Levi Rodkinson, in his book,...

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Megillah (Talmud)
Rabu, 2026-03-18 05:15:43

 'Tractate Scroll') is a tractate in Seder Moed of the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds. It deals with laws and stories relating to Purim, a Jewish holiday originating...

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Survivors' Talmud
Rabu, 2025-10-22 02:19:56

The Survivors' Talmud (also known as the U.S. Army Talmud or the Munich Talmud) was an edition of the Talmud published in the U.S. Zone of Allied-occupied...

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Rabbinic Judaism
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 11:43:31

which flourished from the 1st century CE to the final redaction of the Talmud in c. 600. Mainly developing after the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple...

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The Talmud Unmasked
Jumat, 2026-05-15 13:02:09

Talmud Unmasked (Latin: Christianus in Talmud Iudaeorum: sive, Rabbinicae doctrinae Christiani secreta. English: The Christian in the Jewish Talmud:...

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Disputation of Paris
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:19:39

French: disputation de Paris), also known as the Trial of the Talmud (French: procès du Talmud), took place in 1240 at the court of King Louis IX of France...

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Talmud Torah
Senin, 2026-04-20 03:47:32

In the history of Judaism, Talmud Torah (Hebrew: תלמוד תורה, lit. "Study of the Torah") is a form of religious school that was created in the Jewish diaspora...

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List of Talmudic tractates
Kamis, 2026-05-28 13:03:29

consists of six divisions known as Sedarim or Orders. The Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) has Gemara—rabbinical analysis of and commentary on the Mishnah—on...

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Eduyot (Talmud)
Jumat, 2025-02-07 05:22:00

Tractate Eduyot (Hebrew: עדויות, lit. "testimonies") is the seventh tractate in the order Nezikin of the Mishnah. When, after the destruction of the Temple...

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Halakha
Jumat, 2026-05-01 23:55:34

Torah. Halakha is based on biblical commandments (mitzvot), subsequent Talmudic and rabbinic laws, and the customs and traditions which were compiled in...

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The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition
Kamis, 2025-08-28 20:48:14

Edition Talmud originally began as a Hebrew edition of the Babylonian Talmud by Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, with his literal Hebrew translation of the Talmud along...

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Judaism
Minggu, 2026-06-07 19:06:04

שֶׁבְּעַל־פֶּה, Tōrā šebbəʿal-pe, 'Torah of the mouth'), comprising the Mishnah, Talmud, Tosefta, and Jewish legal Midrashim (מִדְרָשִׁים, 'Studies' or 'Expositions');...

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Mishnah
Minggu, 2026-06-07 22:06:48

non-Orthodox Jews. The Mishnah is also the basis of the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalem Talmud, which are both commentaries on the Mishnah. According to tradition...

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Rabbi
Senin, 2026-04-20 00:19:05

Jewish history and texts, including the Tanakh, Midrash, Mishnah, Tosefta, Talmud, Halakha, and rabbinic commentaries thereon. The basic form of the rabbi...

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Jewish Babylonian Aramaic
Kamis, 2026-03-05 06:41:03

the language of the Babylonian Talmud (which was completed in the fifth century), the Targum Onqelos, and of post-Talmudic (Gaonic) literature, which are...

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Gemara
Selasa, 2026-05-19 03:05:16

the Talmud: the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) and the Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi). The Mishnah is virtually the same in two Talmuds; the...

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Rashi
Rabu, 2026-05-13 15:59:55

His commentary on the Talmud, which covers nearly all of the Babylonian Talmud, has been included in every edition of the Talmud since its first printing...

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List of Talmudic principles
Rabu, 2025-10-08 20:15:23

The Talmud uses many types of logical arguments. Some of the most common arguments and terms are listed here. The term chazakah (Hebrew: חזקה — literally...

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Amoraim
Selasa, 2025-08-12 12:54:44

codified the Babylonian Talmud around 500 CE. In total, 761 amoraim are mentioned by name in the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds. 367 of them were active...

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Ta'anit (Talmud)
Jumat, 2025-02-07 05:24:22

תַּעֲנִית) is a volume (or "tractate") of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and both Talmuds. In Judaism these are the basic works of rabbinic literature. The tractate...

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Tractate (Talmud)
Senin, 2025-09-15 18:57:39

[mɑːˈsɛxɛs]; plural: מַסֶּכְתּוֹת‎ masekhtot) is an organizational element of Talmudic literature that systematically examines a subject. A tractate/masekhet...

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Metatron
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:45:08

Maṭṭaṭrōn), is an angel in Judaism. Metatron is mentioned three times in the Talmud, in a few brief passages in the Aggadah, the Targum, and in mystical Kabbalistic...

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Prophets in Judaism
Senin, 2026-05-25 12:23:58

The Talmud names 55 prophets (48 male and 7 female) of Judaism and Israel (Hebrew: נְבִיאִים Nəvīʾīm, Tiberian: Năḇīʾīm, "Prophets", literally "spokesmen")...

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Soferim (Talmud)
Selasa, 2025-11-04 00:53:57

(Hebrew: מסכת סופרים), the "Tractate of the Scribes", is a non-canonical Talmudic tractate dealing especially with the rules relating to the preparation...

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Ziz
Rabu, 2026-05-13 16:33:33

huge bird, also called Bariuchne, to be rosted at this feast; of which the Talmud saith, that an egge sometime falling out of her nest, did ouerthrow and...

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Edmonton Talmud Torah
Selasa, 2026-03-10 00:10:16

Edmonton Talmud Torah is a Jewish day school in Edmonton, Alberta. The ETT was founded in 1912 by a group of 13 Jews in the basement of the Beth Israel...

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Yankel Talmud
Selasa, 2026-01-13 13:11:40

Yaakov Dov (Yankel) Talmud (Hebrew: ינקל תלמוד; 18 December 1885 – October 1965) was a Hasidic composer of Jewish liturgical music and choirmaster in the...

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Talmudic law
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 16:51:08

Talmudic law is the law that is derived from the Talmud based on the teachings of the Talmudic Sages. See Talmud or Talmudical Hermeneutics for more information...

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Billy Meier
Selasa, 2026-03-24 05:12:47

Eduard Albert Meier (born 3 February 1937), commonly nicknamed "Billy", is the founder of a UFO religion called the "Freie Interessengemeinschaft für Grenz-...

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United Talmud Torahs of Montreal
Rabu, 2026-04-29 20:56:04

United Talmud Torahs of Montreal (Hebrew: הַמְאוּחָדִים בְּמוֹנְטְרִיאָל בּ‬ָ‬תֵי תַלְמוּד תוֹרָה‬, French: Talmud Torahs Unis de Montréal) (also known...

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Bragadin-Giustiniani dispute
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 04:47:53

Venice over the printing of Jewish books that resulted in the burning of the Talmud in 1553 in Italy. Originally an issue over the copyright of the Mishneh...

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Kelm Talmud Torah
Senin, 2025-03-10 07:38:14

The Kelm Talmud Torah was a famous yeshiva in pre-holocaust Kelmė, Lithuania. Unlike other yeshivas, the Talmud Torah focused primarily on the study of...

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Kiddushin (Talmud)
Jumat, 2025-02-07 20:23:20

(Hebrew: קִידּוּשִׁין) is a masekhet or tractate of the Mishnah and the Talmud, and is part of the order of Nashim. The content of the tractate primarily...

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Aggadah
Kamis, 2026-04-02 03:39:55

appears in the classical rabbinic literature of Judaism, particularly the Talmud and Midrash. In general, Aggadah is a compendium of rabbinic texts that...

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Jewish diaspora
Jumat, 2026-06-05 19:56:04

diaspora belongs, not to the domain of history, but of theology.' In Talmudic and post-Talmudic Rabbinic literature, this phenomenon was referred to as galut...

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Rabbinic literature
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 05:06:54

ethical teachings. Following these came the two Talmuds: The Jerusalem Talmud, c. 450 CE The Babylonian Talmud, full canonization of all the previous texts...

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Tosafot
Kamis, 2026-02-19 02:40:07

medieval commentaries on the Talmud. They take the form of critical and explanatory glosses, printed, in almost all Talmud editions, on the outer margin...

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Vancouver Talmud Torah
Rabu, 2026-02-25 01:13:59

Vancouver Talmud Torah (VTT) is a Jewish community day school located in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada serving students from preschool to grade 7...

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Sotah (Talmud)
Selasa, 2025-12-23 03:57:12

Sotah (Hebrew: סוֹטָה or Hebrew: שׂוֹטָה, "strayer") is a tractate of the Talmud in Rabbinic Judaism. The tractate explains the ordeal of the bitter water...

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Talmudical hermeneutics
Kamis, 2025-10-23 05:45:55

Talmudical hermeneutics (Hebrew: מידות שהתורה נדרשת בהן) defines the rules and methods for investigation and exact determination of meaning of the scriptures...

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Bachelor of Talmudic Law
Sabtu, 2026-01-17 07:12:46

The Bachelor of Talmudic Law (BTL), Bachelor of Talmudic Studies (BTS), or First Talmudic Degree (FTD), is a law degree, comprising the study, analysis...

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Shabbat
Rabu, 2026-05-20 22:32:16

restrictive, the fourth of the Ten Commandments in Exodus is taken by the Talmud and Maimonides to allude to the positive commandments of Shabbat. These...

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Hebrew language
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:50:07

Jerusalem and represented by the bulk of the Mishnah and Tosefta within the Talmud and by the Dead Sea Scrolls, notably the Bar Kokhba letters and the Copper...

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Shekhinah
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 20:58:53

manifest divine presence of God and is an extensively discussed concept in the Talmud, philosophy, the Midrash, Hasidic thought, and Kabbalah in Judaism. Unlike...

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Shabbat (Talmud)
Jumat, 2026-05-01 19:57:21

of Seder Moed ('Order [of] Appointed Times') of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. The tractate deals with the laws of observance of and practices regarding...

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Jehiel ben Jekuthiel Anav
Rabu, 2026-01-21 10:36:02

He was the copyist of the Leiden Jerusalem Talmud, "the only extant complete manuscript of Jerusalem Talmud." This project, which he did in 1289, also...

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Middot (Talmud)
Jumat, 2025-10-17 18:18:03

tractate of Seder Kodashim ("Order of Holies") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. This tractate describes the dimensions and the arrangement of the Temple...

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Honi HaMe'agel
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 18:13:53

Jerusalem Talmuds both provide examples of such Jewish miracle workers, including Honi, such as in Jerusalem Talmud Taanit 3:10, 66d and Babylonian Talmud Taanit...

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Jewish views on Jesus
Minggu, 2026-04-19 21:31:02

Jesus in the Talmud Boyarin Dying for God: martyrdom and the making of Christianity and Judaism 1999 "The Jesus Narrative In The Talmud". talmud.faithweb...

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Nedarim (Talmud)
Jumat, 2025-02-07 20:22:35

lit. 'vows') is a masechet of the order of Nashim of the Mishnah and the Talmud. Its subject is laws relating to the neder, a kind of vow or oath in Judaism...

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Jeffrey L. Rubenstein
Minggu, 2026-06-07 10:22:18

Talmud and Rabbinic Literature in the Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University (NYU). His research primarily explores Talmudic narratives...

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Yalta (Talmudic character)
Jumat, 2026-05-08 22:13:33

romanized: Yalta) is among the few named female characters mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud who was a member of a rabbinic family. Yalta was the wife of Rav Nachman...

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Eruvin (Talmud)
Senin, 2026-03-09 01:30:17

עֵרוּבִין, lit. 'Mixtures') is the second tractate in the Order of Moed in the Talmud, dealing with the various types of eruv. In this sense this tractate is...

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Hadran (Talmud)
Rabu, 2025-07-09 21:17:36

short prayer recited upon the completion of study of a tractate of the Talmud or a Seder of Mishnah. It is also the name of the scholarly discourse delivered...

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Extractiones de Talmud
Rabu, 2023-07-12 15:08:45

The Extractiones de Talmud is a collection of passages from the Babylonian Talmud translated from Hebrew and Aramaic into Latin in 1244–1245. It is the...

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Soncino Press
Selasa, 2025-11-04 10:27:27

English translations and commentaries to the Talmud and Hebrew Bible. The Soncino Hebrew Bible and Talmud translations and commentaries were widely used...

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Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud
Senin, 2025-06-09 18:29:05

Schottenstein Edition of the Babylonian Talmud is a 20th-century, 73-volume edition of the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli) featuring an elucidated translation...

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Torah
Minggu, 2026-06-07 02:21:16

been handed down from generation to generation and are now embodied in the Talmud and Midrash. Rabbinic tradition's understanding is that all of the teachings...

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House of Garmu
Selasa, 2025-01-21 13:25:42

According to the Talmud, the House of Garmu was responsible for baking the Showbread offered in the Temple of Jerusalem. The Talmud praised the Garmu family...

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Yeshu
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:34:58

Jesus when used in the Talmud. The name Yeshu is also used in other sources before and after the completion of the Babylonian Talmud. It is also the modern...

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Talmudic academies in Babylonia
Senin, 2025-12-08 15:45:35

The Talmudic academies in Babylonia, also known as the Geonic academies, were the center for Jewish scholarship and the development of Halakha during the...

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Ktav Ashuri
Kamis, 2026-05-21 11:50:45

used in the Babylonian Talmud to refer to the contemporary "Hebrew alphabet", as opposed to the older Paleo-Hebrew script. The Talmud gives two opinions for...

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Mazzikin
Jumat, 2026-06-05 10:22:09

annoyances or greater dangers. This Aramaic term, which is found in the Talmud, means "damagers" or "those who harm". It is generally understood to mean...

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Lilith
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:22:13

figure in Mesopotamian and Jewish mythology. According to accounts in the Talmud she is a primordial she-demon. Based on medieval Jewish folklore, Lilith...

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Bar and bat mitzvah
Selasa, 2026-06-02 03:39:17

family and the community. Bar mitzvah is mentioned in the Mishnah and the Talmud. Some classic sources identify the age at which children must begin to participate...

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Savoraim
Minggu, 2025-03-09 14:29:54

generally holds that the Babylonian Talmud was redacted into more or less its final form around 550 CE. The Talmud states that Ravina and Rav Ashi (two...

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Daniel Bomberg
Senin, 2026-05-04 20:24:37

Gedolot (Rabbinic Bible) and the first complete Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, based on the layout pioneered by the Soncino family printers, with the...

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Central Talmud Torah
Kamis, 2026-03-26 15:32:23

The Central Talmud Torah, also known as the Central Hebrew Free School, was a Jewish parochial school established in 1892 and located at 314-320 Catharine...

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Hebrew calendar
Kamis, 2026-05-28 13:35:43

Shabbat, as its Hebrew name indicates, is a day of rest in Judaism. In Talmudic Hebrew, the word Shabbat (שַׁבָּת) can also mean "week", so that in ritual...

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Hebrew Bible
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 05:38:11

Masoretes added vowel markings to the text to ensure accuracy. According to the Talmud, much of the Tanakh was compiled by the men of the Great Assembly (Anshei...

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Niddah (Talmud)
Sabtu, 2025-11-22 07:02:43

Nid-ah; Hebrew: נִדָּה) is a masekhet or tractate of the Mishnah and the Talmud, and is part of the order of Tohorot. The content of the tractate primarily...

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Melchizedek
Jumat, 2026-05-08 14:16:54

literature – specifically Targum Jonathan, Targum Yerushalmi, and the Babylonian Talmud – presents his name (מלכי־צדק‎) as a nickname for Shem. Joseph Blenkinsopp...

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Mitzvah
Senin, 2026-02-16 04:16:10

mitzvot, the purpose is specified in the Torah; though, the opinions of the Talmudic rabbis (Chazal) are divided between those who seek the purpose of the mitzvot...

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Pharisees
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:08:12

political rather than religious sects. Scholar Thomas Walter Manson and Talmud expert Louis Finkelstein suggest that "Pharisee" derives from the Aramaic...

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Menachem Katz
Rabu, 2026-05-20 14:53:56

Menachem Katz (born 1955) is an Israeli Talmudic scholar whose work focuses on the Jerusalem Talmud (Palestinian Talmud) and digital humanities. He has been...

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Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement
Senin, 2026-05-04 09:26:52

Biblical and Talmudic units of measurement were used primarily by ancient Israelites and appear frequently within the Hebrew Bible as well as in later...

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Miriam Anzovin
Minggu, 2026-04-26 21:27:43

known for her Daf Reactions series of videos explaining passages from the Talmud posted to TikTok and other social media platforms. Anzovin was born to a...

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Abba Arikha
Selasa, 2026-05-19 00:14:44

of the Talmud. With him began the long period of ascendancy of the prestigious Talmudic academies in Babylonia around the year 220. In the Talmud, he is...

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Zionism
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 23:17:21

best known Hasidic opponents of political Zionism was Hungarian rebbe and Talmudic scholar Joel Teitelbaum.[page needed] Although this group of ultra-observant...

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Rabbi Akiva
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:44:16

Akiva ben Joseph (written עֲקִיבָא in the Babylonian Talmud and עֲקִיבָה in the Jerusalem Talmud), born c. 50 CE, was of humble parentage. According to...

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Simon bar Kokhba
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 03:14:02

appear in the Talmud, but only in ecclesiastical sources, until the 16th century. The Jerusalem Talmud (Taanit 4:5) and the Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin...

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Jewish prayer
Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:03:05

prayer, especially on Shabbat or holy holidays. According to the Babylonian Talmud, prayer is a scriptural command: You shall serve God with your whole heart'...

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Houses of Hillel and Shammai
Minggu, 2025-12-14 05:41:08

disputes between them are recorded in the Talmud. The split between them was so deep that, according to the Talmud, "the Torah became like two Torahs". The...

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Beitza
Jumat, 2025-09-12 05:21:58

medieval commentaries on the Talmud, the text is sometimes referred to as "tractate Yom Tov." It was originally composed in Talmudic Babylon (c.450–c.550 CE)...

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Moed
Selasa, 2026-02-17 07:23:18

of the six orders, or major divisions, of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and the Talmud, and primarily deals with the laws and observances of holidays such as Shabbat...

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Jewish holidays
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:25:38

Introspection". Chabad.org. Retrieved July 11, 2013. Babylonian Talmud (BT) Rosh Hashanah 16a Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah 1:2 See, for example, the liturgical poem...

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Bava Batra
Kamis, 2026-01-15 12:17:46

romanized: bāvā baṯrā, lit. 'The Last Gate') is the third of the three Talmudic tractates in the Talmud in the order Nezikin; it deals with a person's responsibilities...

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Yemenite Hebrew
Jumat, 2026-05-22 20:40:25

Hebrew may have been derived from, or influenced by, the Hebrew of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia: the oldest Yemenite manuscripts use the Babylonian...

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Rabbi Meir
Minggu, 2026-05-03 22:33:19

000 times in the Babylonian Talmud. His wife Bruriah is one of the few women cited in the Gemara. According to the Talmud, his father was a descendant...

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Ahai
Jumat, 2024-11-01 10:00:27

Ahai is the most recorded Savora sage in the Babylonian Talmud. His thorough questions in the Talmud are introduced with the phrase: "R. Ahai retorted:.....

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Christine Hayes
Rabu, 2026-04-08 07:41:34

Judaica at Yale University until her retirement in 2023, specializing in Talmudic and Midrashic studies and Classical Judaica. Hayes was born to Australian...

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Nazir (Talmud)
Rabu, 2025-10-22 04:31:14

(Hebrew: נזיר) is a treatise of the Mishnah and the Tosefta and in both Talmuds, devoted chiefly to a discussion of the laws of the Nazirite laid down...

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Vilna Edition Shas
Minggu, 2025-12-21 20:59:12

Vilna Edition of the Talmud, printed in Vilna (now Vilnius), Lithuania, is by far the most common printed edition of the Talmud still in use today as...

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Bemidbar (parashah)
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 06:28:54

18:5. Jerusalem Talmud Eruvin 35b. Babylonian Talmud Zevachim. Babylonian Talmud Horayot 6b. Mishnah Menachot 11:5; Babylonian Talmud Menachot 96a. Numbers...

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Jerusalem
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 11:15:59

(1957). Raymond Hayward. "Melchizedek as Priest of the Jerusalem Temple in Talmud, Midrash, and Targum" (PDF). The Temple Studies Group. Archived (PDF) from...

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Tzoah Rotachat
Sabtu, 2026-03-07 16:02:51

the Talmud and the Zohar is a location in Gehenna where the souls of Jews who committed certain sins are sent for punishment. The Babylonian Talmud lists...

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Adam Mintz
Minggu, 2026-03-08 08:30:33

Adam Mintz (born May 15, 1961) is an American Modern Orthodox rabbi, Talmud teacher, professor, and advocate for Orthodox conversions to Judaism and head...

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Yeshua
Rabu, 2026-06-03 02:43:33

which some named references to Jesus in the Talmud as Yeshu occur in some manuscripts of the Babylonian Talmud, though some scholars, such as Maier (1978)...

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Semikhah
Rabu, 2026-03-04 06:38:31

"transmission of authority" from Moses to Joshua described in Numbers 27:23; the Talmud records Chazal debating the process in tractate Sanhedrin 13b. This form...

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Masturbation
Kamis, 2026-05-21 09:56:55

and Hudson. pp. 17–18, 99. ISBN 0-500-05120-8. Rosenfeld, Jennie (2008). Talmudic Re-readings: Toward a Modern Orthodox Sexual Ethic. City University of...

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Rabbinic period
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:23:19

The Rabbinic period, or the Talmudic period, denotes a transformative era in Jewish history, spanning from the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE...

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Lailah (angel)
Kamis, 2025-03-20 11:09:17

לַיְלָה, Laylāh, meaning "Night") is an angel in some interpretations in the Talmud and in some later Jewish mythology, associated with the night, as well as...

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Kohen
Kamis, 2026-06-04 01:04:05

According to the Talmud, the wearing of the Priestly ephod atoned for the sin of idolatry on the part of the Israelites. According to the Talmud, the wearing...

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Onkelos
Minggu, 2026-02-01 05:16:44

the Targum Onkelos (c. 110 CE). Onkelos is mentioned several times in the Talmud. According to the traditional Jewish sources, he was a prominent Roman nobleman...

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Ohev Sholom Congregation
Rabu, 2026-05-20 10:39:18

Ohev Sholom Congregation (previously Ohev Sholom Talmud Torah [Hebrew for Lovers of Peace and Study of Torah] and Ohev Sholom – The National Synagogue)...

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Judaism and sneezing
Selasa, 2026-05-12 22:02:43

practice of verbally responding to a sneeze, in particular, are discussed in Talmudic and later rabbinic literature. The traditional Jewish response to a sneeze...

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Michelle Cohen Farber
Senin, 2026-05-25 05:44:46

publicly lead a Daf Yomi study, a multi-year Jewish study cycle of the Talmud traditionally reserved for men. The women's Daf Yomi led by Farber celebrated...

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Handwashing in Judaism
Selasa, 2026-05-19 11:05:31

yadayim (Hebrew: נטילת ידיים), which means 'taking up of the hands'. The Talmud used the requirement of handwashing in Leviticus 15:11, "And whomsoever...

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Simeon the Just
Minggu, 2026-02-22 04:45:23

to in the Mishnah as one of the last members of the Great Assembly. The Talmud, Josephus, and the Book of Sirach all contain accounts of him. He was termed...

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Rosh Hashanah
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:47:51

Sefaria. Retrieved 27 September 2025. Talmud, b. Rosh Hashanah 16a:6 Talmud, b. Rosh Hashanah 16b:12 Talmud, b. Rosh Hashanah 16b:13 Psalms 69:29 Hammer...

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List of Hebrew abbreviations
Rabu, 2026-04-29 23:30:20

Yitzchak/Yisra'el/Yosef/ ... ) - Lit. Rabbi Y. 1) (Talmud) Rabbi Yehuda [bar Ilai], the most oft-quoted Tanna in the Talmud. 2) (Talmud) Rabbi Yehoshua [ben Hananiah], a...

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Avodah Zarah
Kamis, 2026-04-16 21:37:02

"idolatry") is the name of a tractate of the Talmud, located in Nezikin, the fourth Order of the Talmud dealing with damages. The main topic of the tractate...

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Zoroastrianism
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:00:54

Retrieved 26 February 2024. Weisberg, Dvora E. (2000). "The Babylonian Talmud's Treatment of Levirate Marriage". The Annual of Rabbinic Judaism: Ancient...

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Jewish religious clothing
Minggu, 2026-04-26 02:35:36

סינר), whether from the front or from the back, out of modesty (Babylonian Talmud, Baba Kama 82a). In subsequent years, the Sages of Israel forbade Jewish...

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Nicholas Donin
Senin, 2026-02-16 11:55:55

in a decree for the public burning of all available manuscripts of the Talmud. Latin sources referred to him as "Rupellus," referring to his native La...

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Holy of Holies
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:38:31

presence of God dwells. The Talmud gives detailed descriptions of Temple architecture and layout. According to the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Yoma, the Holy...

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Amathlai
Rabu, 2025-08-06 10:06:24

According to the Talmud, Amathlai (Mishnaic Hebrew: אֲמַתְלַאי‎ ʾĂmaṯlaʾy) was the name of the mother of Abraham. According to this tradition, she was...

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613 commandments
Rabu, 2025-12-17 10:36:15

romanized: taryág mitsvót). Although the number 613 is mentioned in the Talmud, its real significance increased in later medieval rabbinic literature,...

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Getter's Talmud Torah
Jumat, 2026-03-20 02:19:16

Getters Talmud Torah also known as Beis Shlomo Cheder was an Orthodox Jewish private school in Stamford Hill, London. The school was associated with the...

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Oral Torah
Kamis, 2026-05-28 08:00:28

300–350 CE (the Jerusalem Talmud), and a second, more extensive Talmud compiled in Jewish Babylonia c. 450–500 CE (the Babylonian Talmud). Belief that at least...

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Forbidden relationships in Judaism
Rabu, 2025-11-26 17:50:46

father's wife (Leviticus 18:11) One's daughter (inferred from Leviticus 18:10. Talmud Gittin 83a also implies that the prohibition on marrying one's daughter...

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Mishneh Torah
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:49:41

militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted. Likewise:...

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Judah ha-Nasi
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 03:32:55

According to the Talmud, he was of the Davidic line. He is said to have been born on the same day that Rabbi Akiva died as a martyr. The Talmud suggests that...

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Sukkah (Talmud)
Jumat, 2025-07-25 11:22:04

tractate of the Mishnah and Talmud. Its laws are discussed as well in the Tosefta and both the Babylonian Talmud and Jerusalem Talmud. In most editions it is...

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Jewish views on marriage
Kamis, 2026-03-05 07:36:24

Certain details, primarily as protections for the wife, were added in Talmudic times. In traditional Judaism, marriage is viewed as a contractual bond...

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Sugya
Jumat, 2025-12-19 10:31:42

A sugya is a self-contained passage of the Talmud that typically discusses a mishnah or other rabbinic statement, or offers an aggadic narrative.; see...

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Saul Lieberman
Sabtu, 2026-02-14 03:00:35

the Gra״sh (Gaon Rabbeinu Shaul), was a rabbi and a Talmudic scholar. He served as Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America (JTSA)...

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Torah study
Senin, 2026-03-30 22:25:32

Torah study is the study of the Torah, Hebrew Bible, Talmud, responsa, rabbinic literature, and similar works, all of which are Judaism's religious texts...

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Tablets of Stone
Kamis, 2026-05-28 02:16:00

God (Exodus 34:1). According to traditional teachings of Judaism in the Talmud, the stones were made of blue sapphire as a symbolic reminder of the sky...

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Adin Steinsaltz
Selasa, 2026-06-02 22:23:31

author, translator and publisher. Steinsaltz originally published The Talmud: The Steinsaltz Edition in modern Hebrew, with a running commentary to facilitate...

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Beth Medrash Govoha
Jumat, 2026-05-08 21:17:33

status. The principal Rosh yeshiva since 1982 is Rabbi Malkiel Kotler. Talmud and halakha studies in the institution are carried in the form of over 200...

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Miami
Jumat, 2026-06-05 04:47:57

Thomas University, Miami Gardens Southeastern College, West Palm Beach Talmudic University of Florida, Miami Beach University of Fort Lauderdale, Lauderhill...

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Barry Scott Wimpfheimer
Jumat, 2025-10-24 14:05:37

Barry Scott Wimpfheimer is an American scholar of the Talmud and Rabbinic literature. He is an associate professor at Northwestern University and chair...

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Lazarus Goldschmidt
Rabu, 2026-03-18 16:47:30

Babylonian Talmud into German, and was the first to translate the entire Babylonian Talmud. He received his rabbinical education at the Talmudic school in...

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Sudra (headdress)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 23:49:43

are the New Testament, the Targum Neofiti, the Peshitta, the Babylonian Talmud (this text makes numerous mentions of the sudra and is an important source...

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Haymanot
Rabu, 2026-04-29 09:17:27

(In the Beginning God Created). Ethiopian Jews did not have access to the Talmud or other post-biblical texts of Rabbinic Judaism, and traditionally practiced...

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Franz Kafka
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 12:53:13

lived with Diamant. She became his lover and reignited his interest in the Talmud. He completed four stories, which were published shortly after his death...

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Geonim
Minggu, 2026-05-10 21:01:17

'Excellency') were the chiefs of the Sura and Pumbedita Academies, the two great Talmudic Academies in Babylonia during the Abbasid Caliphate. They were generally...

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Jesus
Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:44:34

of Jesus is long-standing and includes a range of stories found in the Talmud, written and compiled between the 3rd and 5th centuries. In one such story...

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Vatican Hebrew MS 133
Jumat, 2026-03-20 19:44:23

the Jerusalem Talmud copied in the late 13th or early 14th centuries, containing approximately a quarter of the entire Jerusalem Talmud, Seder Zerai'm...

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Jew (word)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 18:54:07

Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature, and the source he used: Megilla 13a:2 (Talmud). "Genesis » Chapter 32"...

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Seven Laws of Noah
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:04:37

pronunciation of "Noah"), are a set of universal moral laws which, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a covenant with Noah and with the "sons of Noah"—that...

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David Weiss Halivni
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:04:00

American-Israeli rabbi, scholar in the domain of Jewish sciences, and professor of Talmud. He served as Reish Metivta of the Institute of Traditional Judaism, the...

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Daf Yomi
Sabtu, 2026-05-02 05:41:01

Babylonian Talmud is covered in sequence. A daf, or blatt in Yiddish, consists of both sides of the page. Under this regimen, the entire Talmud is completed...

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Julius Kaplan (Talmud scholar)
Rabu, 2026-03-11 20:57:01

(יחיאל קפלן) (1939—1885), was a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva College and a scholar of the Babylonian Talmud, who made major contributions to the scientific...

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Karaite Judaism
Rabu, 2026-06-03 13:39:32

explanation. Unlike mainstream Rabbinic Judaism (Talmudic Judaism), which regards the Oral Torah, codified in the Talmud and subsequent works, as authoritative...

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Avot de-Rabbi Natan
Senin, 2026-03-02 22:16:46

Aramaic: אבות דרבי נתן), the first and longest of the minor tractates of the Talmud, is a Jewish aggadic work probably compiled in the Geonic era (c. 700–900...

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Albert Einstein
Senin, 2026-06-08 07:32:20

and philosophy, Talmud introduced Einstein to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Kant became his favorite philosopher; according to Talmud, "At the time he...

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Yahrzeit
Rabu, 2026-04-29 01:24:43

"Halaḥot, Year 1: Vayeḥi". Ben Ish Ḥai (in Hebrew). 14. Talmud, b. Nedarim 12a Talmud, b. Shevuot 20a Talmud, b. Kiddushin 31b:10 Rashi on Yevamot 122a. Aiken...

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Foundation Stone
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:25:45

Southern Wall of the Biblical era, argued that the measurements given in the Talmud do not reconcile. The Holy of Holies ends up being too far north and they...

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Korban
Selasa, 2026-04-28 06:04:59

אזכרי אלעזר Avot of Rabbi Nathan 4:5 Babylonian Talmud, Sukkah 49 Talmud Berachot 3a Jerusalem Talmud, Shekalim 5:1 "Berakhot 26b:4". www.sefaria.org...

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Sanhedrin (tractate)
Kamis, 2025-02-20 10:10:03

Sanhedrin (סנהדרין‎) is one of ten tractates of Seder Nezikin (a section of the Talmud that deals with damages, i.e. civil and criminal proceedings). It originally...

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Exilarch
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:53:25

taxes from Jewish communities, supervising and providing financing for the Talmudic academies in Babylonia, and the charitable re-distribution and financial...

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Rosh yeshiva
Jumat, 2025-05-16 08:00:51

texts, primarily the Talmud and the Torah, and halakha (Jewish law). The general role of the rosh yeshiva is to oversee the Talmudic studies and practical...

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Midrash
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:28:06

מִדְרָשׁוֹת midrashot) is a genre of Jewish Biblical exegesis, including Talmudic texts that use the classical rabbinic mode of homiletical interpretation...

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Second Temple
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:05:23

Babylonian Talmud, Pesahim, 26a Seder Olam Rabbah chapter 30; Tosefta (Zevahim 13:6); Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah 18a); Babylonian Talmud (Megillah 11b–12a;...

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Shema
Minggu, 2026-05-17 22:18:00

appears to have been "to receive the kingdom of Heaven".] Additionally, the Talmud points out that subtle references to the Ten Commandments can be found in...

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Kabbalah
Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:12:14

five books of the Torah. After the Talmud is written, it refers to the Oral Law (both in the sense of the 'Talmud' itself and in the sense of continuing...

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Biblical canon
Minggu, 2026-06-07 20:36:40

tradition are excluded here. The order of some books varies among canons. The Talmud in Bava Batra 14b gives its own order for the books in Nevi'im and Ketuvim...

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Solomon's shamir
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 20:39:21

tools that could also cause war and bloodshed. Referenced throughout the Talmud and midrashim, the Shamir was reputed to have existed in the time of Moses...

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Shekalim (tractate)
Minggu, 2026-05-03 12:00:17

the Babylonian Talmud, but there is one in the Jerusalem Talmud, and the latter is often printed in editions of the Babylonian Talmud. It is the only...

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Redemption (theology)
Senin, 2026-04-06 17:22:01

Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Shabbat, 118b Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, 4b Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Ketubot, 75a Babylonian Talmud, Tractate...

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Oz Vehadar
Minggu, 2025-12-28 22:20:18

Mishnah, Talmud, and works of Rishonim and Acharonim. From 1988 to 2007, Oz Vehadar worked on publishing a new edition of the Babylonian Talmud with corrections...

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Ketubot (tractate)
Senin, 2026-05-25 08:04:36

Ketubot (Hebrew: כְּתוּבּוׂת) is a tractate of the Mishnah and the Talmud in the order of Nashim. It deals with a variety of marital responsibilities,...

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Nazarene (title)
Senin, 2026-05-04 10:08:30

Babylonian Talmud; these mentions are not found in the Jerusalem Talmud. Notzrim are not mentioned in older printed editions of the Talmud due to Christian...

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Berakhot (tractate)
Selasa, 2026-01-06 06:05:11

first tractate of Seder Zeraim (Order of Seeds) of the Mishnah and the Talmud. The tractate discusses the laws of Jewish prayer—particularly of the Shema...

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Shatnez
Selasa, 2025-12-30 08:49:03

Otzerot HaRe'iyah vol. II, p. 97. Talmud, Tractate Niddah 61b Tractate Kilaim ix. 9 talmud, Tractate Kilaim ix. 3 Talmud, Tractate Kilaim ix. 1 Maimonides...

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Amud Yomi
Selasa, 2025-08-12 12:56:25

or "daily page") is a daily regimen undertaken to study the Babylonian Talmud one amud each day. (Compare with Daf Yomi in which a daf consists of two...

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David
Kamis, 2026-06-04 05:55:57

of David's younger sons. While the Bible does not name his mother, the Talmud identifies her as Nitzevet, a daughter of a man named Adael, and the Book...

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King David School, Vancouver
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 14:25:01

Synagogue. The school moved to Baillie Street in 1992, and was renamed to Talmud Torah High School in 1998. In 2005, King David High School opened the doors...

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Ashkenazi Jews
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:02:27

addressed to him from Ashkenaz, by which he undoubtedly means Germany, and Talmudic commentators like Rashi began to use Ashkenaz/Eretz Ashkenaz to designate...

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Samekh
Rabu, 2026-04-08 22:35:24

century BC). This becomes the standard form in early Herodian hands. In Talmudic legend, samekh is said to have been a miracle of the Ten Commandments....

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Year 6000
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 00:48:02

Jewish sources, the latest time for the initiation of the Messianic Age. The Talmud, Midrash, Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer, and Zohar specify that the date by which...

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Elisha ben Abuyah
Jumat, 2026-03-06 20:23:19

worldview considered heretical by his fellow tannaim, the rabbis of the Talmud refrained from relating teachings in his name and referred to him as the...

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Akiva Eiger
Minggu, 2026-05-24 04:27:26

a Talmudic scholar, halakhic decisor and leader of European Jewry during the early 19th century. Eiger is considered one of the greatest Talmudic scholars...

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Paleo-Hebrew alphabet
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 03:22:13

similarity to the Samaritan script, the Talmud states that the Samaritans still used this script. The Talmud described it as the "Livonaʾa script" (Jewish...

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Re'eh
Minggu, 2025-12-14 20:57:51

Deuteronomy 84:1:3. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 57b. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 10b. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 55b. Babylonian Talmud Sotah 14a. Sifre to Deuteronomy...

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Ancient Hebrew writings
Jumat, 2026-01-30 10:28:18

part of the Jerusalem Talmud (Talmud Yerushalmi), the other is found in manuscripts and editions of the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli). Unless otherwise...

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Sources for the historicity of Jesus
Selasa, 2026-05-19 09:57:15

Boyd, who question the value of several of the Talmudic references state that the significance of the Talmud to historical Jesus research is that it never...

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Zilberman Method
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:47:29

emphasizes rote learning of the text, while leaving the more advanced study of Talmud to older students. Schools employing the method are colloquially referred...

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Capital punishment in Judaism
Kamis, 2026-05-14 02:29:27

based on a system of oral laws contained in the Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmud, the primary source being the Hebrew Bible. In traditional Jewish law there...

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Book of Enoch
Jumat, 2026-05-29 19:42:27

Hammadi Library, Pseudepigrapha, Apocrypha, Plato, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Talmud, Old Testament, Patristic Writings, Dhammapada, Tacitus, Epic of Gilgamesh...

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Elimelech
Selasa, 2026-05-05 16:27:22

Bethlehem. Ruth later married Boaz, a relative of Elimelech. According to the Talmud, Elimelch was the son of Nachshon Ben Aminadav, the Nasi of the Tribe of...

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Naamah (demon)
Jumat, 2025-07-11 05:38:17

from and is often conflated with another Naamah, sister to Tubal-cain. In Talmudic-midrashic literature, Naamah is indistinguishable from the human Naamah...

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Angels in Judaism
Jumat, 2026-03-06 03:34:27

different hierarchies. Their essence is often associated with fire. The Talmud describes their very essence as fire. Hebrew mal’ākh is the standard word...

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Siege of Jerusalem (70 CE)
Kamis, 2026-05-21 14:22:39

forbidden sexual relations and bloodshed. — Babylonian Talmud, Yoma, 9b The Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 55b–57a) provides an extensive narrative detailing...

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Amidah
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 06:38:33

However, Rabban Gamaliel is recorded in tractate Berakhot 28b:12 of the Talmud saying, "Each and every day, a person recites the prayer of eighteen blessings"...

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Rudolf Martin Meelführer
Rabu, 2024-10-16 13:23:40

the Talmud. He taught at Altdorf and then was adjunct in philosophy at Wittenberg. His 1699 dissertation Jesus in Talmude (“Jesus in the Talmud”) was...

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Semicha in sacrifices
Senin, 2026-01-05 23:51:49

202–204. Jerusalem Talmud (Hagigah 2:2 [10b]) Jerusalem Talmud, Hagigah 2:2 [10b], cf. Babylonian Talmud, Betzah 20a et seq. Talmud Yoma 36a Mishnah Hagigah...

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Kosher animals
Selasa, 2026-04-21 07:03:46

Leviticus. In an attempt to help identify animals of ambiguous appearance, the Talmud, in a similar manner to Aristotle's earlier Historia Animalium, argued that...

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Asmodeus
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:08:46

and the constructing of Solomon's Temple. He is featured variously in Talmudic stories where he is the king of the shedim. The Quran refers to a "puppet"...

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Mary, mother of Jesus
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 12:49:39

The issue of the parentage of Jesus in the Talmud also affects Jewish views of Mary. However, the Talmud does not mention Mary by name, and is considerate...

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El (deity)
Selasa, 2026-06-02 18:53:31

Literature of the Jewish People in the Period of the Second Temple and the Talmud, Volume 1 Mikra: Text, Translation, Reading and Interpretation of the Hebrew...

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Abraham Weiss
Minggu, 2026-02-22 20:25:39

Abraham Weiss (1895–1970) was professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University in New York from 1940 to 1967. He is best known for his contribution to the development...

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Naso (parashah)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 03:38:32

Babylonian Talmud Chullin 24a; Numbers Rabbah 6:3. Numbers Rabbah 6:3. Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 121b. Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 28a. Babylonian Talmud Zevachim...

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Sandalphon
Minggu, 2026-05-03 17:32:23

traditions of Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, notably in the Midrash, Talmud, and Kabbalah and is generally seen as gathering prayers and passing them...

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Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina
Senin, 2026-05-04 01:52:22

The Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina were yeshivot that served as centers for Jewish scholarship and the development of Jewish law in Syria Palaestina...

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Pikuach nefesh
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:09:45

them my judgements, which if a man do, he shall even live in them." In the Talmud (Yoma 85b), Samuel of Nehardea interpreted the verses above to imply, "Live...

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Elijah
Senin, 2026-05-25 07:19:44

References to Elijah appear in Sirach, the New Testament, the Mishnah and Talmud, the Quran, the Book of Mormon, and Baháʼí writings. Scholars generally...

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Boaz
Jumat, 2026-06-05 11:51:17

received the approval of even the heavenly bet din (Babylonian Talmud Makkot 23b; Yerushalmi Talmud Ber. ix. 14c; Midrash Ruth Rabbah to ii. 4). The midrash...

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Šulak
Selasa, 2025-12-02 23:23:33

a goat in the Talmud (Shabbat 67a, Berachot 62a). This "demon of the privy" (Sheid beit ha-Kisse) appears also in the Babylonian Talmud: The Rabbis taught:...

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Rebbe
Minggu, 2026-05-24 10:11:30

person's main Rosh Yeshiva, Yeshiva teacher, or mentor, who teaches him or her Talmud and Torah and gives religious guidance, is referred to as rebbe (/ˈrɛbə/)...

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Mashal (allegory)
Kamis, 2026-03-05 21:45:19

apothegm. Talmud Scholar Daniel Boyarin has recently defined משל as a process of "exemplification," seeing it as the sine qua non of Talmudic hermeneutics...

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Brit milah
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:28:34

rite has played a central role in Jewish history and civilization. The Talmud, when discussing the importance of brit milah, considers it equal to all...

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Rav
Jumat, 2025-12-05 01:35:20

is a Jewish spiritual guide or a rabbi. For example, Pirkei Avot (in the Talmud) states (1:6) that: (..) Joshua ben Perachiah says, "Set up a teacher [RaB]...

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Gilyonim
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 09:37:48

Gilyonim, or avon gilyon, are terms used by the Mishnah and Talmud to refer to certain heretical works. The Jewish Christians of Palestine had a Gospel...

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Jacob the Heretic
Selasa, 2026-06-02 19:31:34

whose doings were used as examples in a few passages of the Tosefta and Talmud to illustrate laws relating to dealing with heresy (minut). Tosefta Chullin...

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Second Commandment
Jumat, 2026-05-15 07:25:51

shalt not make unto thee any graven image" under the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"...

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Hebrew astronomy
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:25:40

Tanakh (Hebrew Bible or "Old Testament"), to Jewish religious works like the Talmud and very technical works. Some Persian and Arabian traditions ascribe the...

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Zvi Hirsch Chajes
Minggu, 2025-09-21 02:58:13

Hayot or Chiyos) was a Galician talmudic scholar. He is best known for his work Mevo Hatalmud (Introduction to the Talmud), which serves both as commentary...

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Rava (amora)
Jumat, 2025-08-15 10:50:54

Joseph bar Ḥama (c. 280 – 352 CE), who is exclusively referred to in the Talmud by the name Rava (רבא‎), was a Babylonian rabbi who belonged to the fourth...

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Leprosy
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:52:07

the "law of leprosy" (Leviticus 14:54–57). Ancient sources such as the Talmud (Sifra 63) make clear that tzaraath refers to various types of lesions or...

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Pardes (legend)
Rabu, 2025-10-01 05:00:46

— Babylonian Talmud, Tosefta Hagigah 2.2 Sources differ concerning which sage died and which became demented; the Tosefta and the Babylonian Talmud say ben...

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Biblical mile
Jumat, 2025-09-05 14:38:29

p. 56 Babylonian Talmud (Pesahim 46a) Jerusalem Talmud (ʿErūvin 5:7 [36b]); implied Jerusalem Talmud (Ta'anit 24b) Babylonian Talmud (Ketubbot 111b)....

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Jewish eschatology
Minggu, 2026-05-10 10:28:20

continuing into present times. The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations...

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Joshua Boaz ben Simon Baruch
Senin, 2025-08-11 05:30:52

Massoret haTalmud, (trans. "Tradition of the Talmud"), marginal notes to the Talmud giving cross-references to parallel passages in the Talmud and the halakhic...

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Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 22:48:03

of the old Hebrews, taken from the Mosaic books of the Kabbalah and the Talmud", it is actually a grimoire, or text of magical incantations and seals,...

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Chaim Kanievsky
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:41:24

of the Babylonian Talmud and the corresponding sections of the Jerusalem Talmud. For tractates not included in the Babylonian Talmud, primarily those in...

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Jews
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:26:52

Dictionary of the Targumim, Talmud Babli, Talmud Yerushalmi and Midrashic Literature, and the source he used: Megilla 13a:2 (Talmud). Amy-Jill Levine. The...

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Carl Schleicher
Jumat, 2025-01-17 13:25:58

paintings of faces, as well as interpretive paintings of rabbis who study the Talmud. A considerable amount of his paintings are oil paintings. His paintings...

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Hillel the Elder
Kamis, 2026-02-05 23:50:25

sage and scholar associated with the development of the Mishnah and the Talmud and the founder of the House of Hillel school of tannaim. He was active...

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Payot
Jumat, 2026-04-17 20:40:17

the ears extending to beneath the cheekbone, on a level with the nose (Talmud – Makkot 20a). The Mishnah interpreted the regulation as applying only to...

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Justinas Pranaitis
Jumat, 2026-05-15 18:31:08

missionary in Uzbekistan. He is best known as the author of the antisemitic The Talmud Unmasked, and his subsequent involvement as a witness in the Bellis trial...

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Dead Sea Scrolls
Kamis, 2026-06-04 08:34:26

Apocrypha, Plato, Pythagoras, Dhammapada, Egyptian Book of the Dead, Tacitus, Talmud, New and Old Testaments, Apostolic and Early Church Fathers Archived 14...

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Evel Rabbati
Sabtu, 2025-09-20 20:45:19

of the later or minor tractates which in the editions of the Babylonian Talmud are placed after the fourth order, Neziḳin; it treats of mourning for the...

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Yibbum
Selasa, 2026-02-10 01:49:35

Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot 17b Talmud Yevamot 22a Talmud Yevamot 87b Talmud Yevamot 2,3, 16a Talmud Yevamot 24a Talmud Yevamot 12a Babylonian Talmud, Yevamot...

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ArtScroll
Kamis, 2026-01-15 18:15:08

of Babylonian Talmud translations and commentaries, The Schottenstein Edition of The Talmud Bavli ("Babylonian Talmud"). The set of Talmud was completed...

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Pentecost
Rabu, 2026-06-03 10:28:58

according to Leviticus 23:16. It is discussed in the Mishnah and the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Arakhin. The actual mention of fifty days comes from Leviticus...

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Og
Rabu, 2026-05-06 03:02:02

Amorite theology which gave such status to their deceased kings. The Jewish Talmud embellishes the story, stating that Og was so large that he sought the destruction...

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Shmita
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:52:07

the Jerusalem Talmud. Like most tractates in the order of Zeraim, there is no Babylonian Talmud for this tractate. According to the Talmud, observance of...

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United Talmudical Seminary
Selasa, 2025-05-13 13:26:56

The United Talmudical Seminary or Yeshiva Torah ViYirah DeRabbeinu Yoel MeSatmar is a private Rabbinical college, or yeshiva, for Satmar students, with...

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Shofetim (parashah)
Minggu, 2025-12-14 20:56:54

Talmud Tamid 28b. Babylonian Talmud Tamid 28b. Sifre to Deuteronomy 146:1. Mishnah Sanhedrin 5:1; Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 40a. Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin...

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Ashishim
Rabu, 2025-11-05 03:34:24

a red lentil pancake dish of Ancient Israelite origin. According to the Talmud, it was a common dish eaten by Jews in antiquity. Raisin cakes called "ashishot"...

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The Heart Knows Its Own Bitterness
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 23:10:46

(Hebrew: לֵב יוֹדֵעַ מָרַּת נַפְשׁוֹ) is a sugya (passage) in the Babylonian Talmud's tractate Yoma, which discusses when a person may be exempt from fasting...

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Origins of Judaism
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:56:54

3rd to 6th centuries CE; the Masoretic Text of the Hebrew Bible and the Talmud were compiled in this period. The oldest manuscripts of the Masoretic tradition...

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John Hyrcanus
Minggu, 2026-05-03 00:54:11

1967, p. 260 Babylonian Talmud (Sotah 48a) Jerusalem Talmud, Ma'aser Sheni 5:5, Commentary of Solomon Sirilio. Babylonian Talmud (Berakhot 29a) Aish Torah...

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Miriam
Rabu, 2026-05-13 03:14:47

Book of Exodus. The Torah refers to her as "Miriam the Prophetess" and the Talmud names her as one of the seven major female prophets of Israel. Scripture...

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Sifrei Kodesh
Jumat, 2026-01-30 03:04:32

that expound on it, including the Mishnah, Midrash (Halakha, Aggadah), Talmud, and all works of Musar, Hasidism, Kabbalah, or machshavah ("Jewish Thought")...

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Septuagint
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:31:08

Bishop of Hippo. It is also found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud: King Ptolemy once gathered 72 Elders. He placed them in 72 chambers, each...

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Pope Innocent IV
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:28:45

Paris in 1240, which ultimately found the Talmud guilty of 35 alleged charges; 24 cartloads of copies of the Talmud were burned. Initially, Innocent IV continued...

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Menachem HaMeiri
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:46:34

of the Talmud, was not publicly available until the turn of the 19th century, it has since gained widespread renown and acceptance among Talmudic scholars...

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Bible
Jumat, 2026-06-05 09:06:36

of Jewish commentary and interpretation of the Hebrew Bible is the Talmud. The Talmud, (which means study and learning), is a summary of ancient oral law...

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Emor
Kamis, 2026-05-14 21:59:51

Talmud Kiddushin 29a. Mishnah Makkot 3:9; Babylonian Talmud Makkot 21b. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 22b. Babylonian Talmud Sotah 3a. Babylonian Talmud Moed...

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Shas Pollak
Kamis, 2025-05-15 11:22:10

than 5,000 pages of the 12 books of the standard edition of the Babylonian Talmud. Stratton's report consists of accounts of and comments on testimonials...

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Bar yokni
Jumat, 2026-01-02 10:08:58

lit. 'son of the nest') is a giant bird mentioned several times in the Talmud. A source from the early third century, while recounting a series of extraordinary...

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The Chosen (Potok novel)
Minggu, 2026-05-17 13:02:39

spanning the entire Talmud. After Shabbat has ended, Danny reveals to Reuven that his father only speaks to him when they study Talmud together. The two...

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Nazir
Minggu, 2026-03-08 19:21:12

who took the ascetic vow described in Numbers 6:1-21 Nazir (Talmud), a tractate of the Talmud dealing with Nazirites Nazeer (horse), an Arabian stallion...

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Tu BiShvat
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:03:21

calculated by whether the fruit ripened before or after Tu BiShvat. Of the talmudic requirements for fruit trees which used Tu BiShvat as the cut-off date...

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Law
Kamis, 2026-06-04 20:23:59

to use. The Halakha is a code of Jewish law that summarizes some of the Talmud's interpretations. Many countries are Sharia jurisdictions. Israeli law allows...

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Jubilee (biblical)
Selasa, 2025-12-09 11:51:15

 173–174 Young (2007), p. 174 Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah 18a); Babylonian Talmud (Megillah 11b-12a) Babylonian Talmud, Arakhin 12b; Maimonides (1989). Jehoshua...

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Gamaliel
Senin, 2026-05-18 01:33:23

Pharisees to show leniency to the apostles of Jesus in Acts 5:34. In the Talmud, Gamaliel is described as bearing the titles Nasi (Hebrew: נָשִׂיא Nāśīʾ...

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Reuven Dov Dessler
Kamis, 2023-10-19 20:45:12

was a rabbinic leader of the Musar movement and the director of the Kelm Talmud Torah from 1918 until 1931. He was born in 1863 in the city of Liepāja (Libau)...

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List of rabbis
Rabu, 2026-05-27 04:49:46

Babylonia (175–247) Johanan bar Nappaha, primary author of the Jerusalem Talmud (180–279) Bar Kappara Shimon ben Lakish, Amora in Judea (c.200–c.275) Joshua...

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Asher ben Jehiel
Selasa, 2026-05-19 20:13:07

1327) was an eminent rabbi and Talmudist best known for his abstract of Talmudic law. He is often referred to as Rabbenu Asher, “our Rabbi Asher” or by...

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Breed Street Shul
Kamis, 2026-02-12 20:33:31

Breed Street Shul, also known as Congregation Talmud Torah of Los Angeles or Breed Street Synagogue, is a former Orthodox Jewish synagogue in the Boyle...

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Luigi Chiarini (abbot)
Senin, 2026-05-04 18:47:19

the first translation of the Talmud (Talmud of Babylon and Talmud of Jerusalem) in French. His translation of the Talmud benefited from a grant from Tsar...

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Young Israel of Flatbush
Kamis, 2025-11-20 00:12:38

Ashkenazi rite. In 2021 the congregation merged with Talmud Torah of Flatbush to form Young Israel Talmud Torah of Flatbush, jointly affiliated with the National...

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Leviathan
Minggu, 2026-05-10 01:03:30

ISBN 0-87668-524-6. OCLC 27935834. Babylonian Talmud, Baba Bathra 74a. Babylonian Talmud, Baba Bathra 75a. Babylonian Talmud, Bekorot 55b; Baba Bathra 75a. Bava...

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Pinechas (parashah)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 21:07:19

Babylonian Talmud Taanit 8b. Babylonian Talmud Yoma 22b. Babylonian Talmud Bava Batra 143b. Babylonian Talmud Megillah 14a, Sanhedrin 110a. Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin...

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Merkabah mysticism
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 02:23:23

the merkabah without ever seeing it." One mention of the Merkabah in the Talmud notes the importance of the passage: "A great issue—the account of the Merkavah;...

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Encyclopedia Talmudit
Minggu, 2025-12-14 11:34:57

language encyclopedia that aims to summarize the halakhic topics of the Talmud in alphabetical order. It began in 1942 and is still an active project as...

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Yohanan ben Zakkai
Rabu, 2026-04-22 04:15:46

study, and the Talmud reports that he never engaged in idle chatter nor walked even 4 cubits without engaging in Torah study. The Talmud notes the thoroughness...

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Asmachta (Talmudical hermeneutics)
Senin, 2025-02-10 21:54:08

In Talmudical hermeneutics, asmachta is an allusion found in the Hebrew Bible for rabbinical prohibitions or any other Halakha. It's an exception in the...

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Av Beit Din
Minggu, 2026-05-17 06:41:33

Babylonian was av beit din in Horayot 13b in the Babylonian Talmud. The Jerusalem Talmud tells the story of how Gamaliel II was deposed and Eleazar ben...

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Magdala
Senin, 2026-06-01 06:43:34

the Sea of Galilee, 5 km (3 miles) north of Tiberias. In the Babylonian Talmud it is known as Magdala Nunayya (Aramaic: מגדלא נוניה, lit. 'Tower of the...

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Milk and meat in Jewish law
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:41:47

third repetition of this prohibition in Deuteronomy. The rabbis of the Talmud gave no reason for the prohibition. Later authorities, such as Maimonides...

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Law given to Moses at Sinai
Selasa, 2026-06-02 16:22:38

originating from Moses at Sinai. Such teachings have not been derived from any Talmudical hermeneutics, but known solely from the Jewish tradition. According to...

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Shedim
Jumat, 2026-06-05 10:28:23

supports the notion of such sacrifices, especially in the archaic period. The Talmud describes the shedim as possessing some traits of angels, and some traits...

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Yitzhak Frank
Minggu, 2026-03-15 16:12:51

and a teacher of Talmud in Israel. He has made 11 publications between 1991 and 2001. His works are used as teaching material for Talmud students and rabbis...

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Segan
Senin, 2024-11-04 08:20:54

segan (סגן) or segan hakohanim (Hebrew: סגן הכהנים) is a title used in the Talmud to refer to the priest serving as the deputy to the High Priest of Israel...

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Temurah (Talmud)
Jumat, 2025-02-07 05:25:15

literally: "exchange") is a tractate of the Mishnah, Tosefta, and Babylonian Talmud, which is part of the Order of Kodashim. Its main subject is the Biblical...

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Bikkurim (tractate)
Minggu, 2024-12-15 20:57:34

eleventh tractate of Seder Zeraim ("Order of Seeds") of the Mishnah and of the Talmud. All versions of the Mishnah contain the first three chapters, and some...

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Woman with seven sons
Kamis, 2026-05-28 20:41:15

Shmouni. Other versions of the story appear in Jewish sources such as the Talmud and Josippon. The book 2 Maccabees depicts events during the turbulent period...

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Sifra
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 11:00:36

Midrash halakha to the Book of Leviticus. It is frequently quoted in the Talmud and the study of it followed that of the Mishnah. Like Leviticus itself...

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Talmud-Torah School (Prague)
Selasa, 2026-05-26 17:56:45

The Talmud-Torah School (German: Talmud-Thora Schule) was a Jewish religious school in Josefov district in Prague, which operated between 1908 and 1942...

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Tzitzit
Rabu, 2026-02-25 03:54:50

Oral Torah until the third to first century BCE, with the codifying of the Talmud. The primary mnemonic purposes of this commandment are expressed clearly:...

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Job (biblical figure)
Rabu, 2026-05-06 13:37:04

this form of writing to convey a divine message. On the other hand, the Talmud (in Tractate Baba Batra 15a–16b) goes to great lengths trying to ascertain...

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Fellatio in Halacha
Sabtu, 2025-08-16 10:22:12

Oral sex, up until ejaculation, is entirely permitted according to most Talmudic and halachic authorities although ejaculation should only take place within...

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Horayot
Jumat, 2025-02-07 23:21:25

Seder Nezikin in the Talmud. In the Mishnah, this is the tenth and last tractate in Nezikin, the ninth tractate in the Babylonian Talmud, and the eighth in...

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Nazirite
Kamis, 2026-04-02 18:47:08

sin offering. This has led to divergent approaches to the nazirite in the Talmud, and later authorities, with some viewing the nazirite as an ideal, and...

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Miriam Shapira-Luria
Kamis, 2026-06-04 18:02:50

Miriam, was a Talmudic scholar of the Late Middle Ages. According to academic Lawrence H. Fuchs, she was one of the "most noted" women Talmud scholars. Miriam...

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Ki Tissa
Minggu, 2026-05-31 12:15:39

1:1–3:1; Jerusalem Talmud Shekalim 1a–61b; Babylonian Talmud Shekalim 2a–13a (from the Jerusalem Talmud, as it appears in the Babylonian Talmud). Pirke De-Rabbi...

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Zundel Kroizer
Selasa, 2025-10-14 14:35:05

Sh'lemah on the Talmud. Over the years, he served as melamed at various cheders and talmud Torahs including the Meah Shearim Talmud Torah and the cheder...

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Noam Chomsky
Minggu, 2026-06-07 20:51:01

the policy debate. His relentless prosecutorial prose, with a hint of Talmudic whine and the rationalist anarchism of Tom Paine, may reflect a justified...

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Circumcision
Senin, 2026-06-01 11:34:13

requires circumcision for all male children on their eighth day of birth. Talmud Avodah Zarah 26b; Menachot 42a; Maimonides' Mishneh Torah, Milah, ii. 1;...

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Minyan
Kamis, 2026-03-19 02:18:34

combination, the Talmud concludes that "sanctification" should occur in the "midst" of a "congregation" of ten. Jerusalem Talmud The Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah...

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Judaism and masturbation
Jumat, 2026-05-01 16:56:42

prohibition derived from (Genesis 38:7), this is explained in the Midrash and Talmud. (A Rabbinical prohibition is one that is not found in the Torah by way...

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Balaam
Selasa, 2026-03-31 01:26:54

Israel, his role in leading them to sin, and his eventual execution. The Talmud emphasizes his importance by stating that Moses authored not only the Torah...

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House of Avtinas
Selasa, 2025-05-06 00:24:29

According to the Talmud, the House of Avtinas or Eutinos (Hebrew:בֵּית אַבְטִינָס) was responsible for compounding the ketoret, the incense offered on...

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Notarikon
Selasa, 2025-05-27 02:24:38

Notarikon (Hebrew: נוֹטָרִיקוֹן, romanized: Noṭāriqon) is a Talmudic method of interpreting Biblical words as acronyms. The same term may also be used...

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Kosher foods
Selasa, 2026-04-14 15:14:23

products of forbidden species and from unhealthy animals were banned by the Talmudic writers. This included eggs (including fish roe), as well as derived products...

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Challah (tractate)
Minggu, 2025-11-02 07:04:36

in the Mishnah, and does not appear in the Babylonian Talmud, but rather in the Jerusalem Talmud and Tosefta only. According to Maimonides' introduction...

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Urim and Thummim
Senin, 2026-03-30 04:43:18

prophetic vision. The Talmudic rabbis argued that Urim and Thummim were words written on the sacred breastplate. Most of the Talmudic rabbis, and Josephus...

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Va'etchanan
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:59:14

2:5. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 30b. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 32a, Avodah Zarah 7b–8a. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 32b. Babylonian Talmud Gittin 56b. Leviticus...

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Zohar
Rabu, 2026-05-27 02:27:15

artificial dialect largely based on a linguistic fusion of the Babylonian Talmud and Targum Onkelos, but confused by de León's simple and imperfect grammar...

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Rav Ashi
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 13:22:16

reestablished the Academy at Sura and was the first editor of the Babylonian Talmud. The original pronunciation of his name may have been Asheh, as suggested...

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Amnon
Selasa, 2026-01-20 04:35:15

grudge against Amnon for the rape of his sister. According to the Babylonian Talmud: "And Thou should not associate with a sinner:.... And so we find with Amnon...

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Elwood Talmud Torah Hebrew Congregation
Senin, 2026-05-11 20:59:22

The Elwood Talmud Torah Hebrew Congregation (Hebrew: ק"ק בית אברהם), also known as Elwood Synagogue or Elwood Shule, is a historically significant Orthodox...

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Brisker method
Kamis, 2025-11-27 11:42:53

The Brisker method, or Brisker derech, is a reductionistic approach to Talmud study innovated by Rabbi Chaim Soloveitchik of Brisk (Brest, Belarus), as...

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Minor tractate
Minggu, 2025-09-07 06:00:00

tractates (Hebrew: מסכתות קטנות, masechtot qetanot) are essays from the Talmudic period or later dealing with topics about which no formal tractate exists...

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Jewish history
Senin, 2026-06-01 20:33:04

out across the Roman Empire. During the same period, the Mishnah and the Talmud, central Jewish texts, were composed. In the following millennia, the diaspora...

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Gematria
Selasa, 2026-05-19 10:19:02

The most common form of Hebrew gematria is used in the Talmud and Midrash as in Jerusalem Talmud, Genesis Rabba 95:3, and elaborately in Rabbinic literature...

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Seudat mitzvah
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:04:27

brit milah (ritual circumcision), or a siyum (completing a tractate of Talmud or Mishnah). Seudot fixed in the calendar (i.e., for holidays and fasts)...

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Mosaic of Rehob
Senin, 2026-05-18 23:43:49

yet discovered in any Hebrew mosaic in Israel, and also the oldest known Talmudic text. Unlike other mosaics found in the region, the Reḥob mosaic is unique...

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Illui
Minggu, 2026-01-04 03:43:12

pronounced [ʔiˈluj] plural: illuim) is a young Talmudic prodigy. The Hebrew term is applied to exceptional Talmudic scholars among Jews. Illui literally means...

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Louis IX of France
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:21:37

to wear a yellow badge of shame, as well as the notorious burning of the Talmud following the Disputation of Paris. Much of what is known of Louis's life...

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Mary Magdalene
Jumat, 2026-06-05 05:03:28

See Herford 2006, p. 40. The Talmudic passages are at tractate Sanhedrin 67a and tractate Hagigah 4b of the Babylonian Talmud; cf. tractate Shabbat 104b...

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Abbasid Caliphate
Selasa, 2026-06-02 06:48:43

change and continued to circulate in late antique Iraq. The Babylonian Talmud, composed by Iraq-based rabbis, preserves parallel traditions concerning...

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The Oven of Akhnai
Minggu, 2025-11-16 14:28:41

The Oven of Akhnai is a Talmudic story found in Bava Metzia 59a-b which is set around the early 2nd century CE. The story concerns a debate which was held...

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David Luria
Selasa, 2025-12-09 06:30:40

scholars in his generation. He authored commentaries on the Babylonian Talmud and Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer. He was born to a wealthy family in Bykhov in...

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Immanuel Oscar Menahem Deutsch
Senin, 2025-06-02 20:34:50

(1829 – 12 May 1873) was a German Jewish scholar of Semitic studies, the Talmud and Middle Eastern studies. Deutsch was born in Neisse, Prussian Silesia...

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Reuben Margolies
Jumat, 2026-01-23 08:03:05

ראובן מרגליות; November 30, 1889 – August 28, 1971) was an Israeli author, Talmudic scholar and head of the Rambam library. Margolies was born in 1889 in Lemberg...

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Pablo Christiani
Selasa, 2025-06-10 03:04:36

of Barcelona, he followed Nicholas Donin's lead in attempting to ban the Talmud, which he argued had "irrational" textual material. As for his participation...

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Tzniut
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:05:48

laws concerned with modesty of both dress and behavior. In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Elazar Bar Tzadok interprets the injunction at Micah 6:8 to "go discreetly...

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Alphabet of Sirach
Minggu, 2026-03-22 02:29:00

proverbs are the older part of the book. Five of them can be traced to Talmudic-Midrashic literature. The Hebrew commentary, illustrating the proverbs...

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Bar Kokhba Revolt
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:07:47

15:10. Jerusalem Talmud. Jerusalem Talmud, Ta'anit IV, 5 & IV, 8; Kiddushin 4:65c; Yevamot 8:9d. Babylonian Talmud. Babylonian Talmud, Berakhot 61b; Sanhedrin...

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Diaspora Revolt
Rabu, 2026-04-08 06:05:51

In the Babylonian Talmud (Ta'anit 18b), Trajan executes the brothers shortly before being executed himself. The Jerusalem Talmud (Ta'anit 2:12) connects...

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Planet
Kamis, 2026-06-04 00:05:30

צדק Tzedeq or "justice". These names, first attested in the Babylonian Talmud, are not the original Hebrew names of the planets. In 377 Epiphanius of...

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Rebecca (biblical figure)
Kamis, 2026-05-28 12:29:53

they spied Isaac from a distance in the fields of Beer-lahai-roi. The Talmud and the Midrash explain that Isaac was praying, as he instituted Mincha...

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Malkot (Judaism)
Kamis, 2026-04-30 17:37:34

serious offenses. The Mishnah (Tractate Makkot, literally "Blows") and Talmud preserved detailed laws on flogging, formalizing how lashes were to be carried...

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Yetzer hara
Kamis, 2026-02-05 13:56:00

(good inclination) which balances the evil inclination. According to the Talmudic tractate Avot de-Rabbi Natan, a boy's evil inclination is greater than...

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Cynocephaly
Kamis, 2026-05-28 21:47:27

needed] The Talmud states that at the time before the Messiah, the "face of the generation will have the face of a dog." Talmud, Sotah 49b; Talmud, Sanhedrin...

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Elkanah
Kamis, 2025-11-27 20:23:47

take his family annually on pilgrimage to the holy site of Shiloh. The Talmud lists him as a prophet, along with his wife and son. Midrash Samuel Wikiquote...

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Xwedodah
Kamis, 2026-02-19 22:52:14

rabbis formulated a legal-theoretical interpretation in the Babylonian Talmud on sexual relationships between siblings, forbidden to Jews and permissible...

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Sharia
Kamis, 2026-06-04 21:43:22

follow". The fiqh literature parallels rabbinical law developed in the Talmud, with fatwas being analogous to rabbinic responsa. However, the emphasis...

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Kavod HaBriyot
Minggu, 2025-08-17 23:00:11

"individual dignity", "individual honor", or "human dignity" (in a specifically Talmudic sense which may or may not be the same as the secular concept of human...

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Acharei Mot
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 22:21:44

Babylonian Talmud Taanit 26b. Babylonian Talmud Yoma 5a. Babylonian Talmud Chullin 131b. Jerusalem Talmud Yoma 47b (7:1). Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah...

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Eliezer ben Hurcanus
Senin, 2026-05-25 23:13:51

(Hebrew: אליעזר בן הורקנוס) was one of the most prominent Judean Tannaim (Talmudic sages) of 1st- and 2nd-century Judaism, a disciple of Rabban Yohanan ben...

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Targum Onkelos
Rabu, 2026-03-25 21:51:03

famous convert to Judaism in Tannaic times (c. 200 CE). According to the Talmud, the essential content of Targum Onkelos was already known in the time of...

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Quran
Senin, 2026-06-08 02:28:34

to be older revelations of God, but also from heretic, Apocryphic and talmudic sources, such as the Syriac Infancy Gospel and Gospel of James.[citation...

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Moloch
Selasa, 2026-06-02 16:53:58

sacrifice. These theories are partially supported by commentary in the Talmud and among early Jewish commentators of the Bible. Rejecting such arguments...

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Disputation of Barcelona
Senin, 2026-04-27 03:17:59

disputations between Christians and Jews. They were connected with burnings of the Talmud, burnings of Jews at the stake, and anti-Jewish pogroms. In Barcelona, Jews...

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Adar
Selasa, 2026-02-24 01:41:09

month of March in the Gregorian calendar. It is a month of 29 days. In the Talmud, Adar is considered an especially joyous month, owing to Purim, which is...

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Campo de' Fiori
Kamis, 2026-06-04 09:22:13

Burning of the Talmud in Rome on Rosh Hashanah, 1553". The Talmud Blog. Retrieved 3 June 2026. Stern, David (2024). "Burning the Talmud - Before and after...

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Temple in Jerusalem
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:40:45

none on Middot and Kinnim. The Jerusalem Talmud has no Gemara on any of the tractates of Kodashim. The Talmud (Yoma 9b) describes traditional theological...

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Munich Codex Hebraica 95
Selasa, 2025-12-16 23:31:43

1342. It is the only existing handwritten copy of the entire Babylonian Talmud "without Christian censorship". Ease of tracing ownership has been facilitated...

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Gil Student
Minggu, 2026-03-22 09:37:54

real truth about the Talmud. Key areas discussed with relevant sources include: About the Talmud Alleged racism in the Talmud Talmud's view of Jesus' personalities...

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Dirshu
Kamis, 2026-05-21 12:54:38

offers financial incentives to individuals and groups to learn and master Talmud, Halakha, and Mussar texts. It has also published new editions of traditional...

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Conversion to Judaism
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:47:51

has yet to convert, and once converted, is no longer called ger. In the Talmud, ger is used in two senses: ger tzedeq (גֵּר־צֶדֶק) "righteous convert"...

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Nisan
Jumat, 2026-03-13 19:16:48

recalling the exodus from Egypt which occurred during this month. The Talmud states: In Nisan our forefathers were redeemed from Egypt; and in Nisan...

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Sephardic Jews
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:02:45

flourished in Spain's major urban centers. Commentaries on the Bible and Talmud were developed, and a vibrant poetic tradition emerged. One of its most...

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Orpah
Senin, 2025-12-01 03:35:59

literature, the treatment of Orpah is almost entirely negative. Babylonian Talmud (Sotah 42b) identifies Orpah with Harapha, the mother of the four Philistine...

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Schindler's List
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 08:22:01

role in saving Jewish lives and present him with a ring engraved with a Talmudic paraphrase: "Whoever saves one life saves the world entire." Schindler...

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Jewish education
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:25:17

are achieved) and Talmud refers to comprehension of the oral and written law's unity and contemplation of the laws. The term "Talmud" used here is a method...

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Apocalypse of Zerubbabel
Rabu, 2026-01-28 17:40:40

Saadia Gaon (892–942) and Hai ben Sherira (939–1038), both heads of the Talmudic academies of Babylonia, probably knew the book but never mention it by...

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Moses Isserles
Senin, 2026-05-04 13:45:15

teaching, he was opposed to pilpul and emphasized simple interpretation of the Talmud. In 1553 he was appointed as dayan. He was approached by many other well-known...

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Hasid
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 01:09:34

Jewish honorific, frequently used as a term of exceptional respect in the Talmudic and early medieval periods. It denotes a person who is scrupulous in his...

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Joshua ben Gamla
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:44:56

about 64-65 CE. He was killed during the First Jewish–Roman War. While the Talmud refers to Joshua ben Gamla, the earlier Greek works of Josephus Flavius...

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Jewish folklore
Selasa, 2026-05-19 05:29:13

Babylonian Talmud together with commentary. Sefer Ha-Aggadah, "The Book of Legends" is a classic compilation of aggadah from the Mishnah, the two Talmuds and...

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Heart
Rabu, 2026-03-11 06:49:30

ISBN 978-1-78028-357-9. Rosner, Fred (1995). Medicine in the Bible and the Talmud: selections from classical Jewish sources (Augm. ed.). Hoboken, NJ: KTAV...

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Peshat
Rabu, 2026-04-01 02:42:30

this usage onto the Talmudic passages as well. Abraham Ibn Ezra is quoted in his writings as saying that the rabbis of the Talmud were well-versed in...

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David C. Kraemer
Senin, 2025-12-22 19:30:27

David Charles Kraemer is a professor of Talmud and Rabbinics and the Joseph J. and Dora Abbell Librarian at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America...

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Simcha Zissel Ziv
Minggu, 2026-04-19 18:32:53

Musar movement. He is best known as the founder and director of the Kelm Talmud Torah. Simcha Zissel Ziv was born as Simcha Mordechai Ziskind Broida in...

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Rabbi Ilai II
Senin, 2025-03-10 01:16:47

(in Hebrew). Herzog College. Rabbi Il'ai (II) - רבי עילאי, sages of the talmud Bava Batra 158b Yerushalmi Yoma 3 40c; Yerushalmi Gittin 7 48d Yerushalmi...

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Yaakov Elman
Senin, 2024-07-01 15:50:16

of Talmud at Yeshiva University's Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies where he held the Herbert S. and Naomi Denenberg Chair in Talmudic Studies...

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Kil'ayim (tractate)
Kamis, 2025-02-06 19:30:09

Zeraim, it appears in the Mishnah, the Jerusalem Talmud and the Tosefta only; there is no Babylonian Talmud for this tractate. This tractate concerns the...

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Ulla (Talmudist)
Minggu, 2025-09-07 14:23:45

Resh Galuta to deliver halakhic lectures. He traveled repeatedly to the Talmudic academies in Babylonia; on one of his journeys, he was in danger of assassination...

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Telshe Yeshiva (Chicago)
Kamis, 2026-06-04 10:15:16

Yeshiva (Chicago) (or Telshe Chicago or Telz Chicago) is a Yeshiva (Jewish Talmudical and Rabbinical School) in Chicago, Illinois. In 1960 (66 years ago) (1960)...

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Eye for an eye
Senin, 2026-06-01 22:19:08

Pharisaic Judaism to "adapt to changing social and intellectual ideas." The Talmud interprets the verses referring to "an eye for an eye" and similar expressions...

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Hakham
Senin, 2025-10-13 20:10:46

says a wise thing is called a Hakham, even if he be not a Jew." Hence, in Talmudic-Midrashic literature, wise gentiles are commonly called hakhmei ummot ha-'olam...

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Daniel Sperber
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:57:37

British-born Israeli academic and Orthodox Jewish rabbi. He is a professor of Talmud at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and an expert in classical philology,...

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Messiah ben Joseph
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 05:20:56

the Book of Zechariah. The four craftsmen are discussed in the Babylonian Talmud. Hana bar Bizna, attributed to Simeon the Just, identifies these four craftsmen...

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Chazal
Jumat, 2026-06-05 21:24:03

Chazal or Ḥazal (Hebrew: חז״ל) are the Jewish sages of the Mishnaic and Talmudic eras, spanning from the final 300 years of the Second Temple period until...

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Pardes (exegesis)
Rabu, 2026-04-22 04:29:38

"Nigleh-Revealed" part of Torah embodied in mainstream Rabbinic literature, such as the Talmud, Midrash, and exoteric-type Jewish commentaries on the Bible. Esoteric means...

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Jewish views on incest
Minggu, 2025-08-10 14:07:11

obviously also the daughter of a woman with whom he had sexual relations.) The Talmud argues that this absence is because the prohibition was obvious, especially...

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Book of Malachi
Kamis, 2026-04-30 02:46:02

used as a personal name.[citation needed] In tractate Megillah 15a of the Talmud, Rabbi Joshua ben Karha and Rav Nachman—both Tannaim—taught that the book...

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Seth Rogen
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:04:19

socialists". Rogen has an older sister named Danya. He attended Vancouver Talmud Torah Elementary School and Point Grey Secondary School, incorporating many...

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Shavuot
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:07:16

happens exactly seven weeks (i.e. "a week of weeks") after Passover. The Talmud refers to Shavuot as ʻAṣeret (Hebrew: עצרת, romanized: ʻăṣereṯ, lit. 'refraining...

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Temple menorah
Jumat, 2026-05-29 23:04:30

antechamber of the Temple sanctuary, over against its southernmost wall, the Talmud (Menahot 98b) brings down a dispute between two scholars on whether or not...

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R. Travers Herford
Senin, 2025-10-20 05:21:17

Street, London. In 1886 Herford's first effort in Talmudics appeared in an article on "The Jerusalem Talmud" contributed to The Christian Reformer. He was...

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Maror
Minggu, 2026-06-07 22:45:28

lettuce. The word is cognate to other Near-Eastern terms for lettuce: the Talmud identifies hazzeret as hassa, similar to the Akkadian hassu. Modern varieties...

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Qahal
Selasa, 2026-06-02 14:21:37

translates it as "son of a prostitute" (Ancient Greek: wikt:ἐκ πόρνης). In the Talmud, it is suggested that the word mamzer derives from mum zar "a strange blemish"...

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Messiah in Judaism
Minggu, 2026-03-01 10:04:04

David. Belief in the future advent of the Messiah was first recorded in the Talmud and later codified in halakha by Maimonides in the Mishneh Torah as one...

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Judah ben Joseph ibn Bulat
Minggu, 2025-05-11 22:22:34

possessing a thorough knowledge of the Talmud, opened up new methods in Talmudic study. He decided that the method of Talmud interpretation practiced by some...

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Hallel
Jumat, 2026-04-03 17:03:21

later custom rather than to fulfill a requirement. Regarding Passover, the Talmud argues that Full Hallel is only recited on days when the Temple sacrifice...

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Betar (ancient city)
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 06:27:01

appears in various ancient sources, including the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds, as well as in midrashic literature and Patristic writings. These accounts...

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Ma Nishtana
Senin, 2026-02-02 21:53:44

but are quoted differently in the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds. The Jerusalem Talmud only records three questions; why foods are dipped twice as...

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Oskar Schindler
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 08:07:43

1942. The inscription is a compressed version of a precept in the Talmud; see Talmud § Saving a life at Wikiquote. Crowe 2004, pp. 2–7. Schindler & Rosenberg...

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Shalom aleichem
Senin, 2026-04-13 05:30:00

with a final he. The plural šālōm ʿălēkem first appears in the Jerusalem Talmud (c. 400 CE), always with a plural object. It occurs there six times and...

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Ki Teitzei
Jumat, 2026-01-09 07:02:15

Babylonian Talmud Kiddushin 21b–22a. Babylonian Talmud Sotah 35b. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 47b. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 48a. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot...

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Mishpatim
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:42:45

Babylonian Talmud Makkot 11a. Mishnah Makkot 2:6; Babylonian Talmud Makkot 11b. Babylonia Talmud Yoma 85a–b. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 7a. Babylonian Talmud Kiddushin...

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Caper
Rabu, 2026-06-03 03:25:43

"capperisin" mentioned in the Talmud are actually referring to a shell that protected the aviyyonot as it grew. Talmud Bavli discusses the eating of caper...

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Obadiah
Selasa, 2026-05-05 02:55:55

prophet Elijah. Jewish traditions favor the earlier date because the Jewish Talmud identifies Obadiah as an Edomite himself, and a descendant of Eliphaz the...

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Flowers in Judaism
Minggu, 2025-09-21 18:47:29

pillars of the Temple, and the Molten Sea adorned with "lily flowers." The Talmud states that Solomon's Temple contained golden representations of various...

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Bread dildo
Jumat, 2025-12-26 15:03:26

Museum, depicting a woman using two "phalli-shaped objects". The Babylonian Talmud offers another example where bread is used as a means to cause ejaculation...

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Martha daughter of Boethus
Rabu, 2026-03-11 05:04:18

Boethus (Hebrew: מרתא בת ביתוס; d. 70 CE), in the Mishnah and Babylonian Talmud, was one of the richest women in Jerusalem in the period prior to the destruction...

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Samyaza
Senin, 2025-05-05 02:13:25

and his offspring are slain by the four punishing angels. The Babylonian Talmud contains a singular mention of the name Samyaza (spelled שמחזאי in the Vilna...

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Tekhelet
Jumat, 2026-03-20 06:51:22

candidate for the source of the dye. Though H. trunculus fulfilled many of the Talmudic criteria, Herzog's inability to consistently obtain blue dye from the snail...

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Hullin
Selasa, 2026-06-02 00:21:06

2026-06-01. Talmud, b. Chullin 13a:14 Talmud, b. Chullin 40a:2 Talmud, y. Maasrot 1:3:1 Talmud, y. Maasrot 5:3:2 Talmud, y. Chagigah 3:2:7 Talmud, y. Avodah...

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Shulchan Aruch
Senin, 2026-06-08 05:36:43

sophisticated printing styles became required, similar to those of the Talmud.[citation needed]Additionally, many recent publishers have reformatted this...

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David Zini
Minggu, 2026-06-07 04:21:49

his grandfather is Rabbi Meir Zini. In his youth, he studied at Morasha Talmud Torah in Jerusalem, Hispin Yeshiva High School, Yeshiva Shavei Hebron (website...

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Priestly breastplate
Rabu, 2026-05-13 00:36:37

חֹצֶן‎ (ḥōṣen), meaning "fold", relating to its function. According to the Talmud, the wearing of the Hoshen atoned for the sin of errors in judgment on the...

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Asher
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:17:36

l.c.; Menachot (Babylonian Talmud) 85b; Targum Yerushalmi (Talmud Pseudo-Jonathan) on Deuteronomy 33:24 Babylonian Talmud, Menachot 85b. .J. Sr. L. G...

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Pilpul
Senin, 2025-09-22 17:38:34

analysis'; from פִּלְפֵּל (pilpel) 'pepper') is a method of studying the Talmud through intense textual analysis in attempts to either explain conceptual...

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Tinok shenishba
Kamis, 2025-11-27 12:46:52

understanding of Judaism. The term originates from a theoretical discussion in the Talmud regarding a Jew who was kidnapped by gentiles as an infant and therefore...

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Samael
Minggu, 2026-04-26 17:23:09

Sāmāʾīl), also spelled Smil, Samil, or Samiel, is an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic tradition‍—‍‌a figure who is the accuser or adversary (Satan in...

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Hebrew alphabet
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:29:56

org/stable/26449346. Accessed 15 July 2021. Babylonian Talmud (Sanhedrin 21b–22a); Jerusalem Talmud (Megillah 10a). Cf. Mishnah (Megillah 1:8): "The Books...

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Loans and interest in Judaism
Selasa, 2026-02-03 14:09:50

(See Ezekiel 18:13 and 18:17.) The Talmud dwells on Ezekiel's condemnation of charging interest. The Torah and Talmud encourage lending money without interest...

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Shemini (parashah)
Minggu, 2026-04-12 04:55:51

Babylonian Talmud Yoma 76b–77a. Babylonian Talmud Taanit 26b. Babylonian Talmud Taanit 17b; Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 22b. Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin...

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Johann Maier (talmudic scholar)
Jumat, 2025-11-21 03:57:07

is regarding the dating and origin of passages relating to Jesus in the Talmud. Many scholars, such as Joseph Klausner see possible traces of the historical...

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Menachot
Jumat, 2026-05-01 06:19:07

second tractate of the Order of Kodashim. It has Gemara in the Babylonian Talmud and a Tosefta. Menachot deals with the rules regarding the preparation and...

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Halley's Comet
Minggu, 2026-06-07 08:50:37

Halley's Comet as periodic. This theory notes a passage in the Babylonian Talmud, tractate Horayot that refers to "a star which appears once in seventy years...

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Jacob ibn Habib
Kamis, 2023-08-17 02:07:48

Aggadic material in the Talmud together with commentaries. Jacob Ibn Habib was born at Zamora, Spain. In his youth he studied the Talmud under Rabbi Samuel...

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Charoset
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:37:35

finely chopped fruits and nuts eaten at the Passover Seder. According to the Talmud, its color and texture are meant to recall mortar (or mud used to make adobe...

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Yeshiva V'Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim
Minggu, 2025-08-31 14:51:13

an alumnus of Ner Israel Rabbinical College. It is also known as the Talmudic University of Florida. The yeshiva is located at a converted Howard Johnson...

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Practical Kabbalah
Jumat, 2026-04-17 04:09:59

Kabbalah date from Talmudic times and include the making of amulets and other folk remedies using the esoteric names of angels. In Talmudic and Gaonic times...

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Zedekiah
Senin, 2026-04-20 11:04:05

Chronological Data in Kings and Chronicles," Bibliotheca Sacra 148 (1991) 45.[1] Talmud Pesikta Rabbati 26. Helaman 6:10 Helaman 8:21 1 Chronicles 3:15 2 Kings...

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List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, A–K
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:11:53

20:1. The word "amoz" means strong In Rabbinical Tradition, there is a Talmudic tradition that when the name of a prophet's father is given, the father...

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Shiluach haken
Jumat, 2025-10-10 01:32:42

Torah promises longevity to someone who performs this commandment. In the Talmud, Elisha ben Abuyah is reputed to have fallen into disbelief after witnessing...

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Jewish astrology
Jumat, 2025-11-21 09:28:15

תָּלוּי בְּמַזָּל, וַאֲפִילּוּ סֵפֶר תּוֹרָה בָּהֵיכָל) In the Babylonian Talmud, a controversy is presented among the sages of Israel as to whether the...

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Beth midrash
Senin, 2026-03-23 14:29:40

many hundreds of books, including at least several copies of the entire Talmud, Torah, Tanach, siddurim (prayer books), Shulchan Aruch, Mishneh Torah,...

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Daniel Boyarin
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:08:51

Israeli citizenship. He is the Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the...

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Apostomus
Selasa, 2025-08-26 18:30:17

Apostomus is a name occurring in Talmudic tradition. Among five catastrophes said to have overtaken the Jews on the Seventeenth of Tammuz, the Mishnah...

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Moses
Senin, 2026-06-01 11:41:44

well as in the primary works of the Jewish oral law, the Mishnah and the Talmud. Moses is also given a number of bynames in Jewish tradition. The Midrash...

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Abraham ben David
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 16:53:59

Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal ḥakham, an important commentator on the Talmud, Sefer Halachot of Isaac Alfasi, and Mishneh Torah of Maimonides, and is...

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Richard Feynman
Rabu, 2026-06-03 23:31:14

during a visit to the Jewish Theological Seminary, Feynman encountered the Talmud for the first time. He saw that it contained the original text in a little...

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Yehuda Ashlag
Selasa, 2026-06-02 10:22:18

Hayyim ben Joseph Vital in the Talmudic tractate he was meant to be studying. At the age of twelve, he studied the Talmud independently. By nineteen, Ashlag's...

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Jewish views on slavery
Senin, 2026-04-27 19:07:52

slaves. Texts that contain such regulations include the Hebrew Bible, the Talmud, the 12th-century Mishneh Torah, and the 16th-century Shulchan Aruch. The...

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Bereshit (parashah)
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 22:20:28

volume 1, page 1. Babylonian Talmud Megillah 9a. Babylonian Talmud Shabbat 87b. Babylonian Talmud Megillah 10b. Babylonian Talmud Chagigah 12a. Mishnah Avot...

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Judah Loew ben Bezalel
Kamis, 2026-05-28 00:59:40

of "Moreinu ha-Rav Loew", "Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew"), was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who...

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Isidore Epstein
Senin, 2026-03-02 14:08:34

edited the first complete English translation of the Babylonian Talmud (the Soncino Talmud), served as the headmaster of Jews' College, London, and was the...

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Jewish wedding
Minggu, 2025-12-21 18:33:22

blessing over wine, and the betrothal blessing, which is specified in the Talmud. The wine is then tasted by the couple. Rings are not actually required;...

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Shimon bar Yochai
Kamis, 2026-04-23 00:11:48

thus concluded the account in Berakhot 28a is spurious. In the Jerusalem Talmud, in Terumot 46b and Sanhedrin 1:19a, Shimon's acuteness was tested and recognized...

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Bosra
Senin, 2026-06-01 17:08:48

Babylonian Talmud and Jerusalem Talmud mention Bosra as a town on the border outside Israel, but with a sizeable Jewish population. In the Jerusalem Talmud, it...

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Bereavement in Judaism
Minggu, 2026-06-07 04:45:59

Chazal—the rabbis and scholars whose discussions are recorded in the Mishnah, Talmud, and Tosefta—explicate mourning Halakha in, for example, Mo'ed Katan 14b–28b...

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Q
Rabu, 2026-06-03 22:27:45

represent an ape with its tail hanging down. It may also be referred to a Talmudic root which would signify an 'aperture' of some kind, as the 'eye of a needle...

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Anger in Judaism
Kamis, 2026-05-28 07:44:50

anger is treated in a range of Jewish sources, from the Hebrew Bible and Talmud to the rabbinical law, Kabbalah, Hasidism, and contemporary Jewish sources...

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Ordeal of the bitter water
Jumat, 2026-05-08 05:51:59

satah) in Numbers 5:12. The ordeal is discussed in the Sotah tractate of the Talmud. According to Tikva Frymer-Kensky, the ritual is not actually an "ordeal"...

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Maaleh Ashan
Selasa, 2022-08-09 17:54:30

maaleh ashan is the traditional name of an herb which according to the Talmud was an ingredient of the ketoret, the incense offered in the Temple in Jerusalem...

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Knesset Menorah
Kamis, 2026-05-14 13:04:02

the Babylonian Talmud (Talmud Bavli in Hebrew), a fundamental book of Jewish law, which was edited and sealed 1,500 years ago. The Talmud, in contrast to...

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Significance of numbers in Judaism
Selasa, 2026-04-07 08:24:33

in the Gemara of Bava Batra, the most of any tractate in the Babylonian Talmud. Number of positive commandments Number of limbs (איברים) in man's body...

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List of rabbinical schools
Kamis, 2026-03-26 23:31:35

will differ correspondingly: Orthodox semikhah centers on the study of Talmud-based halacha (Jewish law), while in other programs, the emphasis may shift...

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Sadducees
Jumat, 2026-05-22 00:13:55

Jerusalem in 70 CE, the Sadducees appear only in a few references in the Talmud and some Christian texts. In the beginning of Karaite Judaism, the followers...

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Johannes Pfefferkorn
Selasa, 2025-12-30 00:25:35

actively preached against the Jews, attempted to destroy copies of the Talmud, and engaged in a long running pamphleteering battle with the humanist Johann...

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Talmid Chakham
Kamis, 2026-01-22 23:00:41

enter the beth midrash. With regard to association with an ignoramus, the Talmud says: "The Talmid Chakham is first likened by the ignoramus to a vase of...

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Targum Pseudo-Jonathan
Jumat, 2026-02-20 05:38:43

sources as late as the Midrash Rabbah as well as earlier material from the Talmud. So it is a combination of a commentary and a translation. It is also a...

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Poor man's tithe
Kamis, 2025-04-24 19:52:29

Babylonian Talmud ruled that the amount of poor man's tithe one gives to a single poor person must be enough to provide for two meals. The Babylonian Talmud also...

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Catholic Church and Judaism
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:34:30

many Talmudic halakhic precepts limited Jewish interaction with idolaters. Therefore, they distinguished between the idolaters described in the Talmud and...

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Galilean dialect
Minggu, 2026-01-04 02:58:39

Ebraicae et Talmudicae, which studied the New Testament in the context of the Talmud, followed that of Lightfoot. Both scholars provided examples of differences...

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Siyum
Kamis, 2026-02-26 08:55:13

six at once. Conversely, a larger Talmudic siyyum than usual may cover all Talmud in a seder or even all of the Talmud comprising all six sedarim. Such...

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Moshe Koppel
Minggu, 2026-02-22 18:00:51

(Hebrew: משה קופל; born 1956) is an American-Israeli computer scientist, Talmud scholar, political activist and the founder of the Kohelet Policy Forum...

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Purim
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 20:12:50

miracle (Tosafot). The Talmud prescribed three benedictions before the reading and one benediction after the reading. The Talmud added other provisions...

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Missing years (Jewish calendar)
Jumat, 2026-02-13 09:53:38

This discrepancy is referred to as the "missing years". According to the Talmud and Seder Olam Rabbah, the Second Temple stood for 420 years, with the years...

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Tiberius Julius Abdes Pantera
Kamis, 2026-04-16 02:44:19

story that Jesus was the son of a man named Pantera is referred to in the Talmud, in which Jesus is often understood to be the figure referred to as "Ben...

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Isaiah 53
Jumat, 2026-05-22 09:51:37

only; Luke 22:37, Acts 8:32-35, 1 Peter 2:21-22) Rabbi Akiva (Jerusalem Talmud Shekalim 5:1) Moses (Sotah 14a) Nachmanides The Jewish Messiah (Targum Jonathan...

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Sefaria
Minggu, 2026-06-07 13:13:28

translation of the Talmud for free". Religion News Service. Retrieved 25 July 2017. Smith, Noah (September 18, 2018). "The quest to put the Talmud online". The...

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Derekh eretz
Senin, 2026-02-16 05:20:30

Eretz Rabbah and Derekh Eretz Zutta are minor tractates of the Talmud. In the Talmud and Midrash, there are approximately 200 teachings using the term...

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Manichaeism
Selasa, 2026-05-26 22:53:05

principle dialects: Jewish Babylonian Aramaic, the language of the Babylonian Talmud; Mandaic, the language of Mandaeism; and Syriac, which was the language...

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Vayeira
Rabu, 2026-06-03 12:40:57

Babylonian Talmud Yoma 38b. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 63a. Babylonian Talmud Makkot 23b–24a. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 79a. Babylonian Talmud Yoma 38b....

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Modeh Ani
Selasa, 2026-05-05 22:46:59

morning. The specific prayer Modeh Ani, however, is not mentioned in the Talmud or Shulchan Aruch, and first appears in the work Seder haYom by the 16th...

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Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:32:12

rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and posek (decider of Jewish law in new situations), and the author of Kehilos Yaakov, a 19-volume commentary on the Talmud. Kanievsky...

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Siyum HaShas
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:19:17

"completion of the Six Orders [of the Talmud]") is a celebration of the completion of the Daf Yomi (daily Talmud folio) program, a roughly seven-and-a-half-year...

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Satan
Jumat, 2026-06-05 22:50:47

of the yetzer hara ("evil inclination") mentioned in Genesis 6:5. The Talmudic image of Satan is contradictory. While Satan's identification with the...

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Shamma Friedman
Minggu, 2026-02-22 20:27:34

age of ten. In the summers he went to Camp Ramah. He was first exposed to Talmud study by Professor Nahum Sarna, who taught a group of students tractate...

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Titus
Sabtu, 2026-05-23 23:50:40

executed when he was found to be openly plotting against him. The Babylonian Talmud (Gittin 56b) attributes Titus's death to an insect that flew into his nose...

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Yad
Jumat, 2026-04-24 00:27:00

parchment is easily damaged by skin oils. However, the reason provided by the Talmud and other aspects of Jewish tradition state that the original reason was...

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History of the Jews in Iraq
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 02:33:49

became home to many important Talmudic yeshivas such as the Nehardea, Pumbedita and Sura Academies, and the Babylonian Talmud was compiled there. The Mongol...

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Boaz Cohen
Selasa, 2025-12-23 02:29:47

Boaz Cohen (1899–1968) was a leading American scholar of Talmud, a legal decisor (posek), and a professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America...

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Zechariah Aghmati
Rabu, 2025-08-20 07:14:35

in the year 1190, he wrote a Talmudic commentary on Babha Kamma, Babha Mesi'a and Babha Bathera of the Babylonian Talmud. Aghmat-Ourika was the place...

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Repentance in Judaism
Minggu, 2026-03-01 21:14:41

man he wronged. One should repent immediately. A parable is told in the Talmud that Rabbi Eliezer taught his disciples, "Repent one day before your death...

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Superstition in Judaism
Jumat, 2025-09-26 01:46:21

of their neighbours. With the absolute acceptance of monotheism in the Talmudic era, superstition lost its idolatrous character and was no longer seen...

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Eye of a needle
Selasa, 2026-04-28 01:11:48

metaphor for a very narrow opening. It occurs several times throughout the Talmud. The New Testament quotes Jesus as saying in Matthew 19:24, Mark 10:25,...

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Mechitza
Senin, 2026-05-18 15:44:47

law) for a partition dividing men and women is derived from the Babylonian Talmud. A divider in the form of a balcony was established in the Temple in Jerusalem...

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Modern Jewish historiography
Senin, 2026-05-25 21:41:32

Jewish oral history and the collection of commentaries in the Midrash and Talmud are ancient, the rise of the printing press and movable type in the early...

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Intersex
Senin, 2026-06-08 05:01:46

intersex and of opposition to non-consensual genital surgery. In Judaism, the Talmud contains extensive discussion concerning the status of two types of intersex...

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Bornplatz Synagogue
Sabtu, 2026-01-31 18:56:11

Hamburg. In 1906, the building was officially consecrated. In 1911, the Talmud Torah was established in a new building at Grindelhof, north of the Synagogue...

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Kollel
Senin, 2026-03-16 13:27:55

"collection" [of scholars]) is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Like a yeshiva, a kollel features shiurim (lectures)...

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Chumra (Judaism)
Minggu, 2026-06-07 15:37:22

allusions to chumrot are found in the Talmud, but the meaning and application thereof have evolved since the Talmudic era. After a chumra has been observed...

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Priestly undergarments
Jumat, 2026-03-06 04:54:39

was wound so that it formed a cone-shaped turban, called a migbahat. The Talmud records the worn out undergarments and priestly sashes were used for torch...

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Mamzer
Senin, 2026-06-01 06:46:12

alienate'; a mongrel, i. e., born of a Jewish father and a heathen mother". The Talmud explains the term homiletically as consisting of the words mum (defect)...

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History of the Jews in South Korea
Kamis, 2026-06-04 08:41:16

May 2011). "South Koreans Learning Talmud". Aish. Retrieved 13 July 2015. William Kremer (8 November 2013). "The Talmud: Why has a Jewish law book become...

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Kohlit
Rabu, 2025-01-29 13:32:47

Qiddushin 66a; that is chapter 66a of tractate Kiddushin of the Babylonian Talmud) as an area east of the Jordan River where Alexander Jannaeus had led a...

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Yael Hollenberg
Minggu, 2026-03-01 14:00:16

author of several educational works on Jews and Judaism, used especially in Talmud and Torah schools. She is also the freelance author of multimedia resources...

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Aryeh Leib Yellin
Kamis, 2023-08-17 02:10:32

accompanies the Talmudic text in the new Talmud editions of the Romms of Wilna. Yellin left in manuscript many novellæ on the Talmud and a collection...

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Marcus Jastrow
Minggu, 2026-05-10 15:32:57

Prussian-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, lexicographer, and renowned Talmudic scholar. Jastrow was born in Rogasen in the Grand Duchy of Posen, Prussia...

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Bar Juchne
Sabtu, 2023-10-28 03:29:10

was believed to have a wingspan large enough to block out the sun. The Talmud tells of a Bar Juchne egg falling from its nest and destroying 300 cedars...

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Reform Judaism
Senin, 2026-05-25 14:07:31

like-minded young rabbis in Wiesbaden. He told the assembled that the "Talmud must go". In 1841, the Hamburg Temple issued a second edition of its prayerbook...

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Mordecai Margalioth
Rabu, 2025-10-08 22:37:42

מרגליות; 13 October 1909/28 Tishrei 5670–24 March 1968) was a scholar of the Talmud, Midrash and Geonic literature. He was a professor at the Hebrew University...

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Ayelonit
Kamis, 2025-10-16 15:52:22

Kiddushin 33b.). Thus, the archaic gender-sexual identities identified by the Talmud such as ayelonit, androgynos, tumtum, and saris, were created to fit into...

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Chai (symbol)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 00:22:16

as symbols in Jewish culture go back to the earliest Jewish roots, the Talmud states that the world was created from Hebrew letters which form verses...

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Moses Margolies
Jumat, 2026-05-01 05:02:53

Crown) was a Lithuanian Jewish rabbi and a commentator on the Jerusalem Talmud. Margolies was born in Kėdainiai, Lithuania, to his father Rabbi Shimon...

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Lech-Lecha
Rabu, 2026-04-29 12:13:28

Babylonian Talmud Chullin 49a. Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 63a. Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 55a. Babylonian Talmud Sotah 38b. Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin...

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Talent (measurement)
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 22:41:30

and which weight varied depending on the era. According to the Jerusalem Talmud (Sanhedrin 9a, Pnei Moshe Commentary, s.v. דכתיב בקע לגלגלת‎), the weight...

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Antisemitism
Jumat, 2026-05-22 22:05:17

the Jewish "financial aristocracy" along with vicious attacks against the Talmud and the Jews as a "deicidal people" driven by hatred to "enslave" Christians...

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Maimonides' rule
Rabu, 2025-08-06 08:07:58

named after the 12th-century rabbinic scholar Maimonides, who cited a Talmudic verse in Bava Batra regarding a correlation between class size and students'...

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Jinn
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:41:10

The Islamic jinn also bear resemblance to the shedim of the Babylonian Talmud, such as the idea that jinn are subordinate to divine law and integrated...

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Raba
Minggu, 2025-06-01 04:57:03

simply as Rabbah, Babylonian rabbi known in the Talmud as an Amora Rava (amora) (280–352), rabbi and Talmudic scholar Bob Raba (born 1955), American football...

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Michael Levi Rodkinson
Selasa, 2026-02-24 20:48:44

publisher. Rodkinson is known for being the first to translate the Babylonian Talmud to English. Rodkinson’s literary works cover topics in Hasidic historiography...

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Targum Jonathan
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 18:44:21

translation from the Nevi'im, which was part of the weekly lesson. The Talmud attributes its authorship to Jonathan ben Uzziel, a pupil of Hillel the...

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Dosetai
Senin, 2026-03-16 04:25:24

in the parallel passage, Zebachim 99a, and is confirmed by the Jerusalem Talmud. On Abba Jose b. Dosetai see Bacher, "Ag. Tan." ii. 388. A tanna of the...

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Head covering for Jewish women
Senin, 2026-04-20 03:14:07

hair'), suggesting that, normally, her hair is not parua. According to the Talmud, this indicates that the Torah prohibits married women in general from appearing...

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Israel Aaron
Rabu, 2025-08-20 07:02:09

translations of Franz Delitzsch's "Colors in the Talmud" and J. Stern's "Woman's Place in the Talmud."  This article incorporates text from a publication...

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Romantic nationalism
Jumat, 2026-05-29 17:10:43

relation of many Jews to the Bible and the Talmud took another turn. The Zionists preferred the Bible to the Talmud as the national literature, for the Bible...

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Seder Olam Rabbah
Selasa, 2026-03-03 01:55:30

probably also supplemented and edited at a later period. In the Babylonian Talmud this chronicle is several times referred to simply as Seder Olam, and it...

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Outline of Judaism
Kamis, 2026-01-15 05:51:39

these came the two Talmuds: The Jerusalem Talmud, c. 450 The Babylonian Talmud, c. 600 The minor tractates (part of the Babylonian Talmud) The midrash is...

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Purim Torah
Minggu, 2025-12-28 03:59:31

and satirical comments that constitute a parody of the learned style of talmudic or halakhic comments customarily read, recited from memory or authored...

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