Search Results: Talmudic University


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

following subsections outline some of the major areas of Talmudic study. One area of Talmudic scholarship developed out of the need to ascertain the Halakha...

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

bear the same name. Yeshivot in Israel have operated since Talmudic times, as above; see Talmudic academies in Eretz Yisrael. More recent examples include...

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

Jesus in the Talmud. In 1978 Johann Maier wrote Jesus von Nazareth in der talmudischen Überlieferung (Jesus of Nazareth in the Talmudic tradition) in...

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

Jerusalem Talmud from its Babylonian counterpart. The Jerusalem Gemara contains the written discussions of generations of rabbis of the Talmudic academies...

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

Talmud served several purposes: they were pedagogical tools that illustrated subtle points about a sophisticated legal issue; they made the Talmudic material...

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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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Johann Maier (talmudic scholar)
Jumat, 2025-11-21 03:57:07

passages as all belonging to the post-talmudic rather than to the talmudic period 24." Peter Schäfer Jesus in the Talmud p8 "He takes it for granted that in...

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

"Is Talmudic Law a Religious Legal System?". brill.com. Brill Deutschland GmbH. Retrieved 3 March 2026. The Institute of American and Talmudic Law Archived...

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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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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

Rohling. Scholars classify "The Talmud Unmasked" as an antisemitic and anti-Talmudic work, comparable to "Der Talmud Jude" by Rohling (1871) and "The...

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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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Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools
Rabu, 2026-03-04 05:00:21

Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools (AARTS) is a faith-based national accreditation association for rabbinical and Talmudic schools. It is based in...

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

the flow and narrative of the Talmud, and being "void of any notion of its user being guided gently through the Talmudic jungle by an experienced guide...

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

ritual topics not covered in the main Talmudic tractates. For more information, see Minor tractate. Mishnah Talmud Birnbaum, Philip (1975). "Tractates"...

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

1901. Andrew Schumann, Talmudic Logic: (London: College Publications 2012), ISBN 978-1-84890-072-1 Sion, Avi (2010). "Talmudic Hermeneutics". In Schumann...

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

"Babylonian Talmud: Avodah Zarah 10a". www.sefaria.org. Sefaria. Avodah Zarah 9a Soncino edition, footnote 4: "The Eras in use among Jews in Talmudic Times...

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

commentators) almost always refer to later, post-Talmudic writers of rabbinic glosses on Biblical and Talmudic texts. The Midr'she halakha, Mishnah, and Tosefta...

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

procedures to follow minute by minute". The work was nevertheless written in Talmudic Hebrew and Aramaic, since, "the ordinary Jew [of Eastern Europe] of a century...

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

Wiki-Yeshiva]. www.yeshiva.org.il. Retrieved 2024-11-26. "Talmudic Micropedia". The Talmudic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2024-11-26. Fuss, Abraham M. (April...

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

does not feed him. — Yoma 83a-b, Babylonian Talmud Responding to the second inference here, the Talmudic voice then points out that the mishnah requires...

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Breira (Talmudic doctrine)
Selasa, 2025-03-04 22:38:25

doctrine in Talmudic law serving as a development of the law of joint property, and its validity is the subject of dispute among Talmudic authorities...

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

Christian side. He had translated statements by Talmudic sages and pressed 35 charges against the Talmud as a whole to Pope Gregory IX by quoting a series...

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

which early Jewish law is derived. Gemara – the Talmudic process of elucidating the halakha The post-Talmudic codificatory literature, such as Maimonides's...

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

Isaiah 2:4 Isaiah 30:14 Talmud, b. Shabbat 104a:4 Steinsaltz, Adin (2013). "Life in the Talmudic Period". Reference Guide to the Talmud. Jerusalem: Koren....

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

and the Amidah—also cannot be said out of order. In the same standard Talmudic fashion, the Gemara goes through each law of the Mishnah, quoting Tannaim...

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

The Talmudic Aggadah, generally, convey the "deeper teachings"—though in concealed mode, as discussed. The aggadic material in the Babylonian Talmud is...

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

("shakla v'tarya") that is structured by a Talmudic vocabulary. A sugya may also comprise or incorporate a Talmudic narrative, or other kind of aggadah. Starting...

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Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia
Senin, 2026-06-08 05:17:11

high school and beit midrash curriculums are weighted heavily towards Talmudic studies, although the high school provides its graduates with a fully accredited...

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

of a talmudic argument... With the appearance of Rashi’s work, anyone, regardless of means, could by dint of talent and effort master any talmudic topic...

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

designation for the Babylonian Talmud. The building block of gemara is known as a sugya, "a self-contained basic unit of Talmudic discussion" (p. 203) that...

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

ceremony celebrating the completion of study of a Talmudic tractate. Hadran is an Aramaic word used in the Talmud which literally means "we have returned." It...

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

offered. It is accredited by the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools. Official website 40°41′56.9″N 73°57′51.8″W / 40.699139°N 73...

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

He draws on Maimonides' work but also offers Talmudical material (in effect a summary of the Talmudic discussion) largely following the commentary of...

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

4, 45. Hauptman, J. (2010). A new view of women and Torah study in the talmudic period. Jewish Studies, an Internet Journal JSIJ, 9, 249-292. Weingarten...

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

"methodical and systematic" Talmudic knowledge, and was distinguished for his ability to analyze and thereby clarify long Talmudic discussions. The Rosh was...

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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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Yitzchok Isaac Krasilschikov
Kamis, 2025-01-30 14:11:46

known as the "Gaon of Poltava," was a Talmudic scholar and author of a monumental commentary on the Jerusalem Talmud. He was one of the last publicly practicing...

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

substantial translation of any part of the Talmud into Latin and the largest collection of Latin Talmudic excerpts. Around 1238, Nicholas Donin, a Jewish...

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

Works of the Talmudic Era (classic rabbinic literature) Mishnah and commentaries Tosefta and the minor tractates Talmud: The Babylonian Talmud and commentaries...

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

that the name was deliberately omitted from later copies of the Talmud. Extra-talmudic mystical texts such as Sefer Hekhalot do speak of a "lesser YHWH"...

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

access to texts such as the Talmud was limited. This was partially due to the absence of printing. However most notably, Talmudic texts were rare since they...

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

to support the Talmud Torah, and donations for a synagogue or cemetery were similarly used (ib. rule xiii., §§ 5,14). Because Talmudic and Torah education...

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Francisco Franco
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:54:51

the pseudonym Jakim Boor, Franco praised the Protocols for exposing "the Talmudic doctrines and their conspiracy to seize the levers of power in society...

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Birkat HaGomel
Kamis, 2026-04-23 06:27:46

that the prayer is to be recited publicly after an aliyah during services. Talmud, b. Berakhot 54b:12 ben Maimon, Moshe. "Mishneh Torah, Blessings 10:8"....

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

Pilpul, or talmudic discourse, from the applicant. This part of the exam is to test the applicant's ability to engage in specialized Talmudic reasoning...

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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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Tzvi Kushelevsky
Selasa, 2026-03-03 16:15:14

Rabbi Mendel Zaks; Gateshead Talmudical College in England; Hebron Yeshiva; and the Harry Fischel Institute for Talmudic Research. His parents returned...

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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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Talmudical Academy of Baltimore
Kamis, 2025-09-25 04:36:47

in-depth Talmudic analysis) and Hoffman as the "Sho'el u-Maishiv" (study-hall mentor) and instructor of B'kius (a faster, less in-depth method of Talmudic study)...

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

history of Jewish customs, Jewish art history, Jewish education, and Talmudic studies. Daniel Sperber was born in Gwrych Castle, Wales. He studied for...

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

character of Talmudic tradition, it is the relation of the exilarchs to the heads and members of the schools that is especially referred to in Talmudic literature...

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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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Samiel
Selasa, 2024-02-20 11:31:36

Simoom, a strong, dry, dust-laden wind Samael, an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore Samiel, a fictional character in the opera Der Freischütz...

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

development of the Talmudic text. Kaplan was the first to systematically argue that Ravina and Rav Ashi were not the redactors of the Talmud, but rather the...

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

mother's side (Genesis 20:12). The Talmud relates that "Amathlai" was also the name of the mother of Haman. How the Talmudic sages knew this name is unknown...

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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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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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Michael Abraham (rabbi)
Rabu, 2026-03-18 03:36:59

Talmudic Argumentum A Fortiori Inference Rule (Kal-Vachomer) Using Matrix Abduction, Studia Logica 92, 2009, p. 281. Logical Analysis of the Talmudic...

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Mariamne I
Rabu, 2026-04-22 02:35:44

Aristobulus IV, executed 7 BCE daughter Salampsio daughter Cypros There is a Talmudic passage concerning the marriage and death of Mariamne, although her name...

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

long after the Talmudic period. Saul Berlin (d. 1794) argued that the presence of an introduction in the Zohar, unknown to the Talmudic literary genre...

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

specification of "lilith". Historically, certain prominent Jewish rabbis in Talmudic texts feared the likes of liliths, some to such an extent that they recommended...

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

towards Talmudics under the leadership of the Netziv, which often required absorbing a great amount of Talmudic material to acquire a "general Talmudic feel"...

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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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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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Mechitza
Senin, 2026-05-18 15:44:47

synagogues. Although the synagogue mechitza is not mentioned anywhere in Talmudic literature, there is a discussion of a barrier between men and women, used...

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

trans. Talmud Bavli Masekhet Avodah Zarah. Commentary, Translation by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz. (Jerusalem: Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications...

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Master of Rabbinic Studies
Kamis, 2025-11-13 01:02:39

primarily upon regional accreditation. Bachelor of Talmudic Law List of rabbinical schools § Orthodox Talmudic law Yeshiva § College credit "Mapping a journey...

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

rigorous religious and Talmudic learning. In achieving semikhah, rabbinical students work to gain knowledge in specific and relevant Talmudic sugyas and their...

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Samael (disambiguation)
Minggu, 2024-05-19 23:34:52

Samael is an archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore. Samael may also refer to: Samael (band), a Swiss symphonic black/industrial metal band Samael...

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

the Talmudic discussions". Gersonides held that the number 613 was only one rabbi's (Rabbi Simlai's) opinion, and if the conclusion of a Talmudic discussion...

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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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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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Daniel Boyarin
Jumat, 2026-06-05 00:08:51

Hebrew, 1989), examines the Talmudic methodology of Isaac Canpanton (1360–1463, Spain). Carnal Israel: Reading Sex in Talmudic Culture (1993) applies the...

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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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As-salamu alaykum
Kamis, 2026-05-28 03:18:03

des Jüdisch-Palästinischen Aramäisch nach den Idiomen des palästinischen Talmud und Midrasch, des Onkelostargum (Cod. Socini 84) und der Jerusalemischen...

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

of whom, Yoseph, died during his parents' lifetime. Rava studied at the Talmudic Academy of Pumbedita, now Falluja, Iraq. Rava's teachers were Rav Yosef...

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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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Yochanan Zweig
Minggu, 2026-05-24 09:29:09

Rabbi Yochanan Zweig is the Rosh Yeshiva of Talmudic University of Florida / Yeshiva V'Kollel Beis Moshe Chaim. He was raised in Philadelphia. In 1974...

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

the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible in Rabbinic Judaism near the end of the Talmudic period (c. 300–c. 500 CE), but the actual date is difficult to determine...

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

though conceptually continuous, development of mainstream Midrashic and Talmudic rabbinic notions, kabbalistic thought underscored and invigorated conservative...

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

who compiled the Babylonian Talmud.[better source needed] The pivotal role of Akiva ben Yosef is discussed in a Talmudic story, when Moses sees Rabbi...

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

between their dispersed communities throughout the Middle East. The city's Talmudic institute helped spread the rabbinical tradition to Europe, and the Jewish...

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

with difficult passages of the Talmud. Single sentences are explained by quotations which are taken from other Talmudic treatises and which seem at first...

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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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Paul the Apostle
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 01:33:21

by the religious leaders and scholars. Arguably, he is absent from the Talmud and rabbinical literature, although he makes an appearance in some variants...

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

other forms of good fortune and good health. The work contains reputed Talmudic magic names, words, and ideograms, some written in Hebrew and some with...

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

Targum and the final redaction of its text, however, belong to the post-Talmudic period, thus not earlier than the fifth century C.E. One of the earliest...

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

 46. ISBN 978-0-19530034-5. The term "shekhinah" ... was formulated in talmudic literature from the biblical verb designating the residence (shkn) of God...

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Bruriah
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 22:03:02

post-Talmudic commentaries offer explanations of this incident. According to Rashi, "Commentary to Avodah Zarah" 18b, Beruriah made light of the Talmudic assertion...

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Bava
Rabu, 2025-08-13 05:15:07

third of the three Talmudic tractates Bava Kamma, the second of the three Talmudic tractates Bava Metzia, the first of the three Talmudic tractates Bava Park...

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Gnosticism
Selasa, 2026-06-02 20:13:18

Jakob J. (February 1961). "Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition by Gershom G. Scholem". Commentary Magazine (book review). Retrieved...

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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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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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Stone Beit Midrash Program
Minggu, 2025-09-07 09:42:16

hear a lecture (shiur) by an experienced Talmud scholar; the Rabbi. Students are required to purchase the Talmudic Tractate which is being studied in any...

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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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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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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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Nero
Rabu, 2026-06-03 01:37:19

of the greatest of the Tannaim of the third generation (139–163). The Talmudic stories about Nero's conversion and Rabbi Meir being of his descendant...

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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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Eli Baruch Shulman
Rabu, 2025-12-10 09:33:45

its Yeshiva Program/Mazer School of Talmudic Studies (MYP), where he holds the Rabbi Henry H. Guterman chair in Talmud. Rabbi Shulman received his rabbinic...

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

greater than specified in the Talmud (Ket. 111b). In Midrash Shir ha-Shirim, edited by Grünhut from a manuscript, the talmudic saying is cited with a significant...

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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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Mordecai Margalioth
Rabu, 2025-10-08 22:37:42

of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He edited the “Encyclopedia of Talmudic Sages and Geonim” and the “Encyclopedia of the History of the Gedolim of...

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

Talmud explains that the Second Temple fell due to the grave sin of baseless hatred (שִׂנְאַת חִנָּם; sin'at ḥinnam). One of the most famous Talmudic...

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Shekinah Church
Minggu, 2026-05-17 01:51:50

the presence of God in a place. This concept is found in Judaism from Talmudic literature. Shekinah Church was established by Robert Shinn in 1994, initially...

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

Jewish rituals. Pranaitis was called as an expert witness to testify to the Talmudic hatred of Christians, as described in his book. His credibility rapidly...

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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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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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Shimon Shkop
Kamis, 2026-05-28 23:11:54

Torah study, applying both to Halacha and to Talmud, he was widely regarded as a major Talmid Chacham (Talmudic scholar). Shkop was born in Torez, today in...

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Yeshiva of Greater Washington
Senin, 2026-02-23 01:31:59

Capital. It offers a nationally accredited Bachelor's in Talmudic Law. The Yeshiva hired Talmudic scholar Aaron Lopiansky to serve as the Rosh Yeshiva for...

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

variant of the healer-type was the Talmudic genius (gaon) who could offer blessing through the merit of his Talmudic study. This tradition was not limited...

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Slavery in ancient Rome
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:02:16

Social Status of Slaves in the Talmud Yerushalmi and in Graeco-Roman Society.'". In: Schaefer, Peter, (Ed.), the Talmud Yerushalmi and Graeco-Roman Culture...

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Mishnaic Hebrew
Senin, 2026-04-20 01:50:06

romanized: Ləšon Ḥazal, lit. 'Language of the Sages') is the Hebrew language used in Talmudic texts. Mishnaic Hebrew can be divided into: Mishnaic Hebrew proper (c....

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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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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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Isaiah Gafni
Rabu, 2026-02-25 17:48:52

Isaiah Gafni (born 1944) is a historian of Judaism in the Second Temple and Talmudic periods. He is the Sol Rosenbloom Chair of Jewish History at Hebrew University...

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Chaim Soloveitchik
Kamis, 2026-04-23 21:54:45

(1853 – 30 July 1918), was a rabbi and Talmudic scholar credited as the founder of the Brisker method of Talmudic study within Judaism. He was also a member...

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Refael Reuvain Grozovsky
Jumat, 2026-05-01 01:11:03

rabbi, Jewish religious leader and rosh yeshiva ("dean") known for his Talmudic analytical style. He was the son of Rabbi Shimshon Grozovsky, the leading...

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Kairouan Yeshiva
Selasa, 2025-12-09 07:21:42

Yeshiva of Kairouan (Hebrew: ישיבת קירואן; Arabic: يشيفا القيروان) was a Talmudic Academy in Kairouan during the era of the Geonim sages. It was one of the...

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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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Jewish views on suicide
Selasa, 2026-03-24 06:25:51

well as physical ones. The prohibition against suicide is mentioned in the Talmud in Tractate Bava Kama 91b. Semahot (Evel Rabbati) 2:1–5 serves as the basis...

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Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York
Senin, 2026-06-08 06:44:10

The Yeshiva of Rochester (formerly the Talmudical Institute of Upstate New York or TIUNY) is a yeshiva located in Rochester, New York. It is an American...

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

the maternal line, although scholars challenge this theory citing the Talmudic establishment of the law from the pre-exile period. Another argument is...

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Pumbedita Academy
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 19:03:17

(Hebrew: ישיבת פומבדיתא; sometimes Pumbeditha, Pumpedita, Pumbedisa) was a Talmudic academy in Pumbedita, an unidentified location in modern Iraq, during the...

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Seventh Commandment
Jumat, 2026-02-20 09:59:30

Orthodox and Protestants except Lutherans, or the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud "Thou shalt not steal", under the Augustinian division...

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

sentiment is expressed in the Talmudic declaration: When the month of Adar begins, one increases rejoicing. The Talmud also associates Adar with good...

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Babylon
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:02:25

as Babylon. Examples of their culture are found in Judaism's Babylonian Talmud, the Gnostic Mandaean religion, the East Syrian Rite of Christianity, and...

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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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Jacob Pollak
Senin, 2026-05-04 13:45:29

of Rabbi Joseph, was the founder of the Polish method of halakhic and Talmudic study known as the Pilpul. He was born about 1460 or 1470 in Poland, and...

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

and the Talmud says it was not adultery at all, citing a Jewish practice of divorce on the eve of battle. Furthermore, according to Talmudic sources,...

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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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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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Isaiah di Trani
Rabu, 2026-01-14 17:17:35

the most prominent representative of Talmudic scholarship in Italy. He wrote commentaries on almost the whole Talmud, in the form of tosafot, ḥiddushim...

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

Pandera" which he admittedly has constructed himself by combining the Talmudic and Midrashic texts and the marginal glosses.) Kohelet Rabba also relates...

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

treats Mary considerately and by no means only polemically. The talmudic and post-talmudic discussions about the Virgin Mary are classic…" Van Voorst, Robert...

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

Babylonian Talmud: The next stage in Talmudic elucidation", in Mintz, Sharon Liberman; Goldstein, Gabriel M. (eds.), Printing the Talmud: From Bomberg...

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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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Jewish cuisine
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:24:56

is the only parve food that the Talmud places restrictions on when it is being baked/eaten alongside meat. Talmudic reasoning for not eating meat and...

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

the Talmudic period, consensus existed as to the basic formulation of most prayers, though regional variations remained. By the end of the Talmudic period...

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

discipline. This innovation allowed post-Talmudic courts to administer flogging in cases that did not fit the strict Talmudic criteria or when formal evidence...

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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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Mattathias
Kamis, 2026-02-19 00:09:46

found in the deuterocanonical book of 1 Maccabees, in Josephus, and in Talmudic references (Shabbat 21b, Shabbat 23a – related to the candles). He is also...

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

the Ashuri script first appears in rabbinic writings of the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods, referring to the formal script used in certain Jewish ceremonial...

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Yeridat ha-dorot
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 03:06:44

"Lights" through the history of creation. In Jewish thought, deepening Talmudic and Rationalist enquiry broadens the physical application of Torah (vessels)...

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List of colleges and universities in Florida
Minggu, 2026-05-10 22:54:01

religious schools are accredited by the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools (AARTS), the Association of Theological Schools in the United States...

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Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Senin, 2026-06-01 03:09:39

served as a guide and role-model for tens of thousands of Jews, both as a Talmudic scholar and as a religious leader. Joseph Ber Soloveitchik was born on...

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Rabbinic stance on Bar Kokhba revolt
Jumat, 2026-03-20 07:27:52

mention of the sages of Yavneh. There are contradictory Talmudic sources: The Babylonian Talmud shows the sages' opposition to Bar Kokhba (in Tractate...

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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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Bernard Fryshman
Kamis, 2025-09-04 05:49:56

executive vice president of the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools since 1973. He served two terms on the predecessor to the National...

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

educational institution, with graduate classes in which, in addition to Talmudic studies, the instruction was given in the Hebrew language. The most important...

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Dov Noy
Selasa, 2026-03-10 08:07:39

under the supervision of folklorist Stith Thompson. Titled "Motif-Index of Talmudic-Midrashic Literature", Noy's dissertation analyzed motifs in rabbinic literature...

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Avraham Steinberg
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 00:13:55

head of the Editorial Board of the Talmudic Encyclopedia (or Encyclopedia Talmudit) and Editor-in-Chief of the Talmudic Micropedia. He professes to see "very...

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Arakhin
Minggu, 2026-05-24 19:26:29

romanized: ʿarāḵin, lit. 'values') is the fifth tractate in Kodashim in the Talmud. It deals mostly with the details of the laws in Leviticus 27:2–29 in Rabbinic...

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Moshe Shmuel Shapiro
Senin, 2026-04-06 23:27:01

in-depth analysis of various Talmudic topics. Sha'arei Shemu'os, a compilation of Shapiro's novellae arranged by folio of the Talmudic tractates on which he...

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Hai ben Sherira
Minggu, 2025-03-09 00:21:32

Gaon of the Talmudic academy of Pumbedita during the early 11th century. He was born in 939 and died on March 28, 1038. He received his Talmudic education...

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Lurianic Kabbalah
Jumat, 2026-03-20 08:56:44

underpinned the Mitnagdic focus on Talmudic, non-mystical Judaism for all but the elite, with a new theoretical emphasis on Talmudic Torah study in the Lithuanian...

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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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Rabbah bar Nahmani
Selasa, 2025-02-18 16:50:06

Jewish Talmudist known throughout the Talmud simply as Rabbah. He was a third-generation amora of the talmudic academies in Babylonia, which were in Asoristan...

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

were known for their halakhic and Talmudic studies. However, many traditions and customs from the Jerusalem Talmud and other Land of Israel rabbinic sources...

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

Ba'omer, his Yahrzeit (date of death). Not only was Isserles a renowned Talmudic and legal scholar, but he was also learned in Kabbalah and studied history...

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

(Leviticus 24:16). Some Talmudic rabbis held that only those offences for which a Jew would be executed, are forbidden to gentiles. The Talmudic rabbis discuss...

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

the regulations in a different way to the Talmudic opinions. The Karaites, who reject the authority of Talmudic opinions, interpret the biblical prohibitions...

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

animals in their mother's milk to the slaying of nursing infants. The Talmudic rabbis believed that the biblical text only forbade cooking a mixture of...

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Outline of Judaism
Kamis, 2026-01-15 05:51:39

(commentaries/commentators) almost always refer to later, post-Talmudic writers of Rabbinic glosses on Biblical and Talmudic texts. The Mishnah and the Tosefta (compiled...

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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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Sefirot
Minggu, 2026-05-24 01:08:14

Rabbinic Judaism to Kabbalah, but abounds more widely in Biblical, Midrashic, Talmudic and philosophical literature. Kabbalah extends the Man-metaphor more radically...

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Tallit
Senin, 2026-03-16 13:21:27

the Amidah and when called to the Torah for an aliyah. In the Talmudic and post-Talmudic periods the tefillin were worn by rabbis and scholars all day...

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

the single banner of "Appointed Times." According to Rashi, the foremost Talmudic commentator (1040–1105 CE), this term specifically refers to the festivals...

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Michael Rosensweig
Selasa, 2026-05-05 03:10:30

and Perel Schupf Chair of Talmud. In 1997, he was appointed Rosh Kollel of the prestigious Beren Institute for Advanced Talmudic Studies (Beren Kollel Elyon)...

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Avrohom Gurwicz
Jumat, 2026-04-10 21:21:19

Gurwicz is a British Orthodox rabbi and Talmudic scholar. Since 1982 he has been the rosh yeshiva of Gateshead Talmudical College. Gurwicz was born in London...

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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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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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Orthodox Judaism
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 04:51:28

Ashkenazi rabbinic authorities espoused Nahmanides' position that the Talmudic exegesis, which derived laws from the Torah's text by employing hermeneutics...

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Bar Ilan Responsa Project
Jumat, 2025-07-25 20:47:33

Display biographies of hundreds of responsa authors and other Talmudic and post-Talmudic scholars from medieval times to the present. Calculate the numerical...

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Mesivta
Jumat, 2026-05-01 01:19:42

the metivta. The term metivta first appears in the Talmud, where it refers to a yeshiva of Talmudic sages. Abba Arika learned in the metivta in Sepphoris...

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Abrahamic religions
Minggu, 2026-06-07 20:43:44

following Noahide Laws, a set of moral imperatives that, according to the Talmud, were given by God as a binding set of laws for the "children of Noah"—that...

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Abaye
Rabu, 2026-04-08 08:44:10

generation of the Talmudic academies in Babylonia. He was born about the close of the third century and died in 337. Abbaye, according to Talmudic tradition,...

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Heresy in Judaism
Senin, 2026-04-27 04:18:12

Korach: considered a heretic by the Talmudic Sages Judaism's view of Jesus Elisha ben Abuyah: heretical Talmudic Sage Anan ben David: His works reject...

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

with the Talmudic source(s) of the ruling: "In these generations, those who rule from the Shulchan Aruch without knowing the reasoning and Talmudic basis...

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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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Crucifixion of Jesus
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 09:36:11

Student, Gil (2000). "The Jesus Narrative In The Talmud". Talmud: The Real Truth About the Talmud. Archived from the original on January 30, 2020. Retrieved...

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Eighth Commandment
Senin, 2024-02-26 02:03:13

Orthodox, and Protestants except Lutherans, or the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor"...

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Kallah
Kamis, 2024-10-31 21:19:35

moral purity. The subject matter was largely taken from the Babylonian Talmud. The importance of the Kallah Convention (referred to under another name)...

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Joshua Höschel ben Joseph
Minggu, 2026-03-08 01:31:33

Ruthenia, to study the Talmud under Rabbi Samuel ben Phoebus of Kraków. He returned to his native country and continued his Talmudic studies in the city...

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Isaac Aboab I
Kamis, 2026-05-28 08:15:24

Menorat ha-Maor (Hebrew: מנורת המאור), was an early 14th century Spanish Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist. He is known for his intellectual approach to rabbinic...

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

resolving the contradiction. Modern scholars like Zvi Ron allegorize the Talmudic story, interpreting it as a moral lesson about the consequences of refusing...

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Eglon (king)
Jumat, 2026-05-29 18:46:22

routed and the Israelites enjoyed eighty years of peace. Rabbis in the Talmudic tradition claimed that Ruth was Eglon's daughter. According to this tradition...

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Aramaic
Senin, 2026-05-18 00:26:55

identified with the language of the Babylonian Talmud (which was completed in the seventh century) and of post-Talmudic Geonic literature, which are the most important...

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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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Moshe Chaim Luzzatto
Senin, 2026-05-25 23:38:40

Tevunot ("The Way of Understanding") introduces the logic that structures Talmudic debates as a means to understanding the world. One major contemporary rabbi...

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Nachmanides
Rabu, 2026-04-22 13:36:06

not structured as running commentary on the Talmud; instead it focuses on specific parts of the Talmudic discussion. In approach, it fully utilizes the...

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Plato
Kamis, 2026-05-21 23:17:29

philosopher-kings. Plato is also referenced by Jewish philosopher and Talmudic scholar Maimonides in his Guide for the Perplexed. Many of these commentaries...

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

period afterwards. Commentators connect the use of this phrase in this Talmudic passage to its use in the marriage ceremony to illustrate interpretive...

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

event was inspired by the monument to Giordano Bruno). The plaque quotes a Talmudic description of the martyrdom of Rabbi Hananiah ben Teradion, who was burned...

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Moshe Zvi Segal
Jumat, 2026-03-06 12:16:29

September 1875; died 11 January 1968) was an Israeli rabbi, linguist and Talmudic scholar. Segal was born in Maishad, present-day Lithuania (then part of...

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

the Diaspora. Talmudic study in Yeshiva academies, most of them located in The United States and Israel, continues today. These Talmudic Yeshiva academies...

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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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Tetragrammaton
Minggu, 2026-06-07 21:07:37

of Songs contain this Hebrew name. Observant Jews and those who follow Talmudic Jewish traditions do not pronounce יהוה‎ nor do they read aloud proposed...

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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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Rashi's daughters
Selasa, 2026-04-28 05:24:18

Rashi's daughters were the three daughters and only children of the medieval Talmudic scholar, Rashi and his wife Rivka. Their three daughters were Yocheved...

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Babylonia (disambiguation)
Sabtu, 2026-03-28 08:14:30

may also refer to: The region called Babylonia by Talmudic scholars between c. 589-1038 CE; see Talmudic Academies in Babylonia Babylonia (gastropod), a...

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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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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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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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Chavrusa
Minggu, 2026-02-22 17:18:17

"fellowship"; pl.: חַבְרָוָותָא, ḥāḇrāwāṯā), is a traditional rabbinic approach to Talmudic study in which a small group of students (usually 2–5) analyze, discuss...

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Rav Nachman
Kamis, 2025-12-04 10:06:35

simply as Rav Nachman in the Babylonian Talmud. He was married to Yalta, who is mentioned several times in Talmudic literature. It is generally accepted...

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Chai (symbol)
Kamis, 2026-05-14 00:22:16

the minimum level of the Divine will. Two common Jewish names used since Talmudic times, are based on this symbol, Chaya feminine, Chayim masculine. The...

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Hekhalot literature
Selasa, 2026-02-03 04:51:44

revelatory texts produced sometime between late antiquity (some believe from Talmudic times or earlier) to the Early Middle Ages. Many motifs of later Kabbalah...

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Bezalel Ashkenazi
Minggu, 2026-04-12 17:50:28

Talmudic commentaries which have not otherwise been preserved. Ashkenazi himself wrote only short marginal annotations in his edition of the Talmud....

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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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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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Isaac Hirsch Weiss
Rabu, 2025-01-15 03:49:43

numerous articles of his own, most of them treating of the Talmud in general and of Talmudic subjects. No less important are his biographical sketches...

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Yiddish
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:07:08

(taytshn) – 'translating'. Many Ashkenazi yeshivas' highest level lectures in Talmud and Halakha are delivered in Yiddish by the rosh yeshivas as well as ethical...

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Solomon Zeitlin
Selasa, 2026-05-12 02:00:09

1886 or 31 May 1892 – 28 December 1976) was an American Jewish historian, Talmudic scholar and in his time the world's leading authority on the Second Commonwealth...

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Zvi Yosef Resnick
Jumat, 2026-01-23 16:08:29

one of the great Torah sages of his time, able to quote from the entire Talmud and its commentaries from memory. In 1894, he was appointed Dean of the...

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Nissim ben Jacob
Minggu, 2026-05-10 20:18:21

ūlei ha-talmūd (Hebrew: "The book of the key to unlocking the Talmud"; often, simply ha-Mafteach, (The Key), linked here) is essentially a Talmudic cross-reference...

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Modeh Ani
Selasa, 2026-05-05 22:46:59

should pause slightly between the words "compassion" and "abundant". In Talmudic times, Jews traditionally recited Elohai Neshamah (Hebrew: אֱלהַי נְשָׁמָה...

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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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Unicorn
Rabu, 2026-06-03 20:38:19

that it was similar to the keresh animal described in Marcus Jastrow's Talmudic dictionary as "a kind of antelope, unicorn". The qilin (Chinese: 麒麟), a...

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

the Babylonian captivity and the subsequent restoration of Zion); the Talmudic tradition ascribes late authorship to all of them; two of them (Daniel...

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Yeshivish
Jumat, 2026-05-22 01:00:36

of it, which generally features Yeshivish phonology but excludes many Talmudic words. This can be explained as much of the Yeshivish lexicon is learned...

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Ashkenazi Hebrew
Kamis, 2026-01-22 07:57:01

as in the words shabbos, kiddush and sukkah. Many authorities, from the Talmudic period on (b. Megillah 24b, y. Berakhot 2:4, b. Berakhot 32a) and into...

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Halil (musical instrument)
Jumat, 2025-10-24 15:16:06

it as flute or pipe. However, the text of the Septuagint, Vulgate, and Talmud all indicate that the instrument was likely a double (a modern equivalent...

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

Samaritan script is a static script which was used mainly as a book hand. The Talmudic sages did not share a uniform stance on the subject of Paleo-Hebrew. Some...

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Oholei Torah
Kamis, 2026-06-04 06:21:11

High School. The Beis HaMedrash, Talmudic Seminary Oholei Torah was founded in 1970, for post-high school Talmudic studies.[citation needed] In 1975...

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Beth Hatalmud Rabbinical College
Minggu, 2026-06-07 00:36:35

they study other parts of the Talmud. The school's accreditation is from the Association of Advanced Rabbinical and Talmudic Schools. A month after Rabbi...

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Amin al-Husseini
Rabu, 2026-06-03 00:40:37

antisemitic and convinced himself, using arguments based on Biblical, Talmudic, and Quranic passages, that Jews were enemies of God, engaged in a global...

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Abraham Yizhaki
Jumat, 2025-12-19 03:34:35

Abraham Yizhaki (Hebrew: אברהם יצחקי, romanized: Avraham Yitsḥaki) was a Talmudic scholar and dayyan who lived in Salonica toward the end of the sixteenth...

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Jewish magic
Sabtu, 2026-04-11 10:24:07

techniques employed by Jews from the Second Temple period through the Talmudic era Practical Kabbalah, a branch of the Jewish mystical tradition that...

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Nisroch
Jumat, 2026-01-02 02:15:09

rejects all suggested identifications as linguistically implausible. In the Talmud, "Nisroch" is actually said to be derived from the Hebrew word "neser."...

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

Wikiquote has quotations related to Pharisees. Resources > Second Temple and Talmudic Era > Jewish Sects The Jewish History Resource Center – Project of the...

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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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Isaac Alfasi
Kamis, 2026-05-07 01:09:20

follows the ordering of the Talmud, but sometimes Talmudic excerpts are moved from place to place, and very rarely non-Talmudic texts are incorporated into...

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

on circumcision that was later rescinded by Antoninus Pius. She cited Talmudic passages suggesting the ban existed prior to the revolt, including an account...

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Targum Jonathan
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 18:44:21

general recognition in Lower Mesopotamia in the third century, and from the Talmudic academies in Babylonia it was carried throughout the Diaspora. It originated...

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Ambrosius Frobenius
Rabu, 2025-06-04 22:21:37

(1537–1602), was a Basel printer, and the publisher of an almost complete Hebrew Talmud, between 1578 and 1580. He was son of Hieronymus Froben (1501–1565), and...

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

As Malachi lived centuries before Jesus it is clear that the rabbis of Talmudic times did not view Jesus as a divinely inspired prophet. Furthermore, the...

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Jewish views on slavery
Senin, 2026-04-27 19:07:52

religious justification for the practice of slavery. Broadly, the Biblical and Talmudic laws tended to consider slavery a form of contract between persons, theoretically...

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Elu ve-elu, these and those are the words of the living God (Eruvin 13b)
Senin, 2026-04-20 17:59:59

line of Talmud is among the most mentioned in rabbinic literature: Simon-Shoshan reported more than 14,000 in database of sources. The Talmudic passage...

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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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Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
Minggu, 2026-04-12 08:18:13

(Hebrew: אליהו אליעזר דסלר; 1892 – 31 December 1953) was an Orthodox rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Jewish philosopher of the 20th century. He is best known for...

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Tektōn
Rabu, 2026-05-20 05:40:49

nagger (craftsman), the Talmud later takes this metaphor to refer to 'scholar' or 'learned man,' that is, a rabbi. Such a later Talmudic meaning would place...

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Owen Benjamin
Senin, 2026-05-25 18:15:14

" Mandel has said that Benjamin has posted fabricated writing from the Talmud and spread antisemitic conspiracy theories, including Holocaust denial....

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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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Central United Talmudical Academy of Monsey
Rabu, 2025-09-17 15:44:30

Central United Talmudical Academy of Monsey or Central UTA of Monsey (CUTAM) is a private Hasidic Jewish school, with separate boys' and girls' campuses...

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Open sesame
Rabu, 2025-12-24 14:41:04

the Hebrew šem 'name', i.e., God, or a kabbalistic word representing the Talmudic šem-šāmayīm ("shem-shamayim"), 'name of heaven'. Open sesame has been classified...

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Shtetl
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:50:43

the Jew in Eastern Europe, held by Jew and Gentile alike, is true to the Talmudic tradition. The picture includes the tendency to examine, analyze and re-analyze...

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Concubinage
Kamis, 2026-06-04 15:41:27

mistress staying in [the] house". In tractate Sanhedrin 21a of the Babylonian Talmud, Rav Yehudah, citing Rav (Abba Arikha), rules that the difference between...

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

principal. In 1965, he founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications and began his work on the Talmud, including translation into Hebrew, English, Russian...

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Louis Ginzberg
Senin, 2026-06-01 06:40:17

November 28, 1873 – November 11, 1953) was a Russian-born American rabbi and Talmudic scholar of Lithuanian-Jewish descent, contributing editor to numerous articles...

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Ishtori Haparchi
Selasa, 2026-06-02 00:09:25

sages and rabbis of fame. His father was Moshe HaParhi, a distinguished Talmudic scholar. His grandfather was Nathan ben Meir [he] of Trinquetaille, the...

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Pontius Pilate
Sabtu, 2026-05-30 19:59:03

identification supported in 2000 by Kenneth Lönnqvist. Lönnqvist notes that the Talmud (Lamentations Rabbah 4.4) records the destruction of an aqueduct from Solomon's...

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Anno Mundi
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 11:44:52

may be a discrepancy; see Missing years (Jewish calendar). During the Talmudic era, from the 1st to the 10th centuries CE (38th–48th centuries AM), the...

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

according to the same author, two and half years. Another part of the Talmudic narrative is that the Romans killed all the defenders except for one Jewish...

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History of Jewish mysticism
Selasa, 2025-12-23 14:44:16

preserved only by a privileged few. Talmudic Judaism records its view of the proper protocol for teaching secrets in the Talmud, Tractate Hagigah, 11b, "One...

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Bochur
Selasa, 2025-03-25 02:35:55

bochurim", Hebrew: ישיבֿה בחורים) came to denote young bachelor men who studied Talmud. Due to the 14th century calamities for the Jews in Europe, including pogroms...

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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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Segula (Kabbalah)
Senin, 2026-02-09 02:28:14

is a protective or benevolent incantation or ritual in Kabbalistic and Talmudic tradition. In medieval magic, "sigil" (/ˈsɪdʒɪl/) was commonly used to...

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Tikunei haZohar
Jumat, 2024-11-01 09:32:12

a linguistic fusion of the Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the Babylonian Talmud and the formalised Jewish Palestinian Aramaic of the Targum Onkelos, but...

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Aaron HaLevi ben Moses of Staroselye
Senin, 2026-02-23 00:17:09

Aaron HaLevi ben Moses (Hurwitz) of Staroselye was a Talmudic scholar and Kabbalist of note who lived in Poland during the latter part of the eighteenth...

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Gershom Scholem
Senin, 2026-06-01 04:05:19

monotheism battles mythology without completely defeating it. During the Talmudic period, some of the institutions—for example, the notion of the magical...

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Meir Zlotowitz
Minggu, 2026-03-01 07:39:04

anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic, and rabbinic sources, 1976 Eichah (Lamentations): A new translation with a commentary anthologized from Talmudic, Midrashic...

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

media related to Second Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Second Temple and Talmudic Era Archived 2021-02-24 at the Wayback Machine The Jewish History Resource...

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History of the Jews in Poland
Senin, 2026-04-20 06:26:17

Shachna (one of Jacob Pollak’s pupils) is counted among the pioneers of Talmudic scholarship in Poland. In 1515 Shachna established the yeshiva in Lublin...

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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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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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Ten Commandments
Minggu, 2026-05-24 00:25:54

bound by the Ten Commandments, and not also by many other biblical and Talmudic laws, such as the requirement to observe holy days other than the sabbath...

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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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Eliyahu Ben Haim
Selasa, 2025-10-28 08:36:22

Eliyahu Ben Chaim (born August 4, 1940) is a Sephardi rabbi, Talmudic scholar, and Orthodox halachist. He is the Av Beit Din (head of the rabbinical court)...

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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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Primary texts of Kabbalah
Senin, 2026-05-25 16:34:40

other. The Bahir opens with a quote attributed to Nehunya ben HaKana, a Talmudic sage of the 1st century, and the rest of the book is an unfolding discussion...

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Hanoch Albeck
Selasa, 2026-03-10 08:22:20

(Hebrew: חנוך אלבק; August 7, 1890 - January 9, 1972) was a professor of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He was a foremost scholar of the...

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Women in Judaism
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:23:46

affected how Jewish women were perceived by society: "the biblical and Talmudic heritage; the situation in the non-Jewish society within which the Jews...

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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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Gersonides
Rabu, 2026-04-15 15:26:35

constitutes his immortality. Gersonides was the author of the following Talmudic and halakhic works: Shaarei Tsedek (published at Leghorn, 1800): a commentary...

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

argued that Pharisaic sages believed that the Messiah had lived during the Talmudic period, and that they must therefore have believed that the Messiah was...

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Rashbam
Rabu, 2026-02-11 00:47:35

consequence of the opinion expressed by them, that the constant study of the Talmud is one of the most laudable pursuits, commentators have been unable, by...

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Mikva'ot
Senin, 2025-09-15 23:37:05

Tractate Miqwaʾoth (Hebrew: מקואות, lit. "Pools of Water"; in Talmudic Hebrew: Miqwaʾoth) is a section of the Mishna discussing the laws pertaining to...

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Marriage
Minggu, 2026-06-07 23:07:33

was originally free to divorce her for any reason, at any time. However, Talmudic sources complicate this matter significantly, with Beit Shammai stating...

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Klaf
Minggu, 2025-07-27 21:38:08

(Hebrew: קְלָף) is the designation given a particular piece of skin. The Talmudic definition includes both the form of the skin and the way it is processed...

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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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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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Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad/West Coast Talmudical Seminary
Sabtu, 2025-12-06 00:50:20

Talmudic Schools, recognized by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation The degree has a strong emphasis of Philosophy, Jewish Law, Talmudic analytics...

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

also a seudat mitzvah. Based on the Talmud and Midrash, the seudah celebration upon the completion of a Talmudic tractate is considered a seudat mitzvah...

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Surrogacy
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:16:42

the legal parents, citing the well-known passage in Sanhedrin 91b of the Talmud which states that life begins at conception. Also controversial is the issue...

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Temple Mount
Senin, 2026-06-01 09:40:56

Maccabees. The term Har haBayīt is used throughout the Mishnah and later Talmudic texts. The exact moment when the concept of the Mount as a topographical...

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Hermeneutics
Minggu, 2026-04-12 18:58:38

Methodologies (London: Springer Nature, 2022), p. 63. See, e.g., Rambam Hilkhot Talmud Torah 4:8 Woo, B. Hoon (2013). "Augustine's Hermeneutics and Homiletics...

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Iberian Peninsula
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 19:10:15

Chronological Index of Jewish History, Covering 5,764 Years of Biblical, Talmudic & Post-Talmudic History. Zichron Press. ISBN 9780967037837 – via Google Books....

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Ovadia Yosef
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:46:40

also known as Maran (Hebrew: מרן; lit. 'Our Master'), was an Iraqi-born Talmudic scholar, hakham, posek, and the Sephardi Chief Rabbi of Israel from 1972...

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

in classical Sunni legal theory is both more explicitly permissive than Talmudic law with respect to authorizing individual reason as a source of law, and...

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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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Nochum Partzovitz
Jumat, 2026-02-06 10:18:10

largest Yeshiva in the world at the time. He is known for explanations of Talmudic topics. Partzovitz was born in Trakai, Poland to its Chief Rabbi, Aryeh...

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

from the Sifra which the Talmudic authors knew; furthermore, entire passages known to the authors of the Babylonian Talmud are missing in the present...

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

various opinions emanated from various Talmudic academies. Sherira Gaon (c.987 CE) indicates that the Talmud was not in its final form until many generations...

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Iggeret of Rabbi Sherira Gaon
Senin, 2025-07-07 00:17:20

revising and finishing the Talmud. The letter he wrote is the chief source for the history of the Talmudic, post-Talmudic, and geonic periods. Jacob ben...

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

teacher of Mahuza) died, and he was the first important teacher in the Talmudic Academies in Babylonia after Rava's death. Simai, Ashi's father, was a...

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Ark of the Covenant
Senin, 2026-06-01 01:51:59

tent of meeting that the Kohathites were responsible for carrying. The Talmud in Yoma suggests that the Ark was removed from the Temple towards the end...

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Miswak
Senin, 2026-05-18 01:26:52

Greece (mentioned by Alciphron), ancient Rome, ancient Israel (mentioned in Talmud), Eastern Asia (mentioned in the Gospel of Buddhism), etc. The sticks made...

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Sixth Commandment
Rabu, 2024-04-10 08:06:17

Orthodox and Protestants except Lutherans, or the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud "Thou shalt not commit adultery", under the Augustinian...

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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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Maaseh Breishit and Maaseh Merkavah
Sabtu, 2026-04-18 06:54:16

in Sefer Yetzirah, must not be regarded as Talmudic in origin. The very fact that there are so many Talmudic and midrashic parallels to the conceptions...

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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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Solomon ben Simon Duran
Rabu, 2025-08-20 06:58:59

Solomon was born in Algiers, and in his youth became familiar with the Talmud and rabbinical literature, and with a resoluteness remarkable for his time...

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Zecharias Frankel
Selasa, 2026-05-05 13:03:38

Frankel's studies in the history of Talmudic literature had convinced him that the neglect of the Jerusalem Talmud was a serious drawback in the critical...

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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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Torah in Islam
Kamis, 2026-04-16 10:40:48

books of the Hebrew Bible and with Jewish writings and exegeses in the Talmud and Midrash. Indeed, We sent down the Torah, in which was guidance and light...

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Rav Chisda
Selasa, 2026-06-02 00:45:46

and the central Talmudic authority passed to Rabbah in Pumbedita. Rav Ḥisda's halakhot are frequent throughout the Babylonian Talmud, some being given...

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Chaim Tchernowitz
Minggu, 2026-05-31 05:06:12

Kitzur HaTalmud: a series of academically-oriented commentaries on various Talmudic tractates Lessons in marriage laws according to the Talmud (1922) Decision...

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Tzaraath
Selasa, 2026-03-03 20:49:41

first model of sanitary legislation. Nevertheless, some (though not all) Talmudic laws treat tzaraath as noncontagious: non-Jewish victims of tzaraath were...

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Samaritans
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:15:21

Yehudim (literally "Judeans"), the standard Hebrew name for Jews. The Talmudic attitude expressed in tractate Kutim is that they are to be treated as...

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Leviticus Rabbah
Rabu, 2025-02-26 03:44:32

and the Jerusalem Talmud, in addition to other ancient sources. The redactor appears to have referred also to the Babylonian Talmud, using several expressions...

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

(920–990) 10th-century grammarian and poet Eleazar Kalir, (c.570–c.640) early Talmudic liturgist and poet Eleazar of Worms, (Sefer HaRokeach), (1176–1238) 12th-century...

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

commandments that do not incur one of the Four Executions. According to Talmudic law, the authority to apply capital punishment ceased with the destruction...

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Sanhedrin
Jumat, 2026-06-05 03:46:13

the Nasi. The Sanhedrin was headed by the chief scholars of the great Talmudic Academies in the Land of Israel, and with the decline of the Sanhedrin...

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

Holy Land, no notable developments in astronomy happened there during the Talmudic period. The starry heavens of the land of Israel interested the Jews as...

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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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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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Intersex
Senin, 2026-06-08 05:01:46

Retrieved 13 April 2025. Schifrin D (19 September 2014). "Stanford prof: Talmudic rabbis were into analyzing sexuality". J. Archived from the original on...

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Pesikta de-Rav Kahana
Minggu, 2026-05-10 08:41:32

designated by דש"ח, etc., came into use; this cycle is not mentioned in Talmudic times but is subsequently stated to have been ordained or prescribed in...

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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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Sasanian Empire
Rabu, 2026-06-03 15:30:20

Jewish history are associated with the Sasanian Empire. The Babylonian Talmud was composed between the third and sixth centuries in Sasanian Persia and...

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Lawrence Schiffman
Rabu, 2026-03-25 22:29:05

Sea Scrolls, Judaism in late antiquity, the history of Jewish law, and Talmudic literature. Schiffman was a graduate of Great Neck North High School. He...

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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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Ursula von der Leyen
Jumat, 2026-06-05 20:57:51

University Ursula von der Leyen stated that "Europe is the values of the Talmud," highlighting shared ethical foundations like personal responsibility,...

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Aryeh Leib Baron
Jumat, 2025-04-25 03:58:26

(dean) of Yeshiva Merkaz HaTorah and the rabbi of Beis Medrash Merkaz HaTalmud in Montréal, Canada, as well as the founder of Yeshiva Ahavas Torah Baranovich...

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

thousand to the left and ten thousand to the right (Berakhot 6a). Certain Talmudic passages describe methods of detecting mazzikin, such as sifting fine ashes...

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Avraham Eliezer Alperstein
Selasa, 2026-05-19 16:25:20

publisher, communal leader and exceptional Talmudic scholar. He published the first ever section of Talmud in the United States. Studying under the Ridbaz...

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Yaakov Sussmann
Senin, 2026-03-09 03:06:41

Talmud. He is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Talmud at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a recipient of the Israel Prize for Talmudic...

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J. David Bleich
Senin, 2026-04-06 05:42:51

professor of Talmud (rosh yeshiva) at the Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary and heads its postgraduate institute for the study of Talmudic jurisprudence...

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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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Diocletian
Selasa, 2026-06-02 04:43:36

considered to be a mythological reflection of the historical Diocletian. The Talmud includes several semi-legendary accounts of Diocletian. One of them recounts...

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Jerusalem of Gold
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:23:35

Talmudic references are also present in the song. The phrase "and to adorn crowns to you" invokes the Talmudic concept of crowning, which the Talmud uses...

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

relevant Talmudic sugyas, together with their development by the Rishonim and Acharonim, especially the Arba'ah Turim; see Yeshiva § Jewish law. The Talmud lists...

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Bekhorot
Selasa, 2026-05-26 06:53:33

(Hebrew: בכורות, "First-borns") is the name of a tractate of the Mishnah and Talmud which discusses the laws of first-born animals and humans. It is one of...

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Ayin and Yesh
Jumat, 2026-05-15 05:58:08

can be equally manifest in finitude as in infinitude, as found in the Talmudic statement that the Ark of the Covenant in the First Temple took up no space...

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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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Monsieur Chouchani
Senin, 2026-06-01 07:14:32

Chouchani on Levinas is most strongly felt in Levinas' famous series of Talmudic Readings. Levinas did not acknowledge his influence until late in his life...

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

Any controversy from the Talmud (Eine Streitfrage aus dem Talmud), Rabbi scholars in a Debate, Talmudic Discussion, A Talmudic issue in dispute (An Issue...

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First Jewish–Roman War
Selasa, 2026-06-02 18:10:17

19 December 2024. Alon, Gedaliah (1994). The Jews in Their Land in the Talmudic Age. Translated by Levi, Gershon. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-47495-6...

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The Messiah at the Gates of Rome
Sabtu, 2026-05-16 02:14:48

is a traditional story, mashal, or parable in Jewish tradition from the Talmudic tractate Sanhedrin 98a. Rabbi Joshua ben Levi (who lived in the first half...

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

Sokoloff, Michael (2002). A dictionary of Jewish Babylonian Aramaic of the talmudic and geonic periods. Bar Ilan University Press. p. 792. ISBN 965-226-260-9...

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Hanan bar Rava
Kamis, 2026-04-23 22:58:20

bar Rava (חנן/חנא/חנין בר רב/א) or Ḥanan bar Abba (חנן בר א/בא) was a Talmudic sage and second-generation Babylonian Amora. He lived in Israel, moved...

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Book of the Wars of the Lord
Selasa, 2026-04-21 11:39:10

Gil. On the Authorship of the Torah. Aishdas: "So far, we have seen the talmudic and midrashic evidence that the forefathers, including Moshe, wrote books...

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Tzedakah
Minggu, 2026-01-18 00:54:55

for "charity" in the above sense is an adaptation of Rabbinic Judaism in Talmudic times. In the Middle Ages, Maimonides conceived of an eight-level hierarchy...

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Tower of Babel
Minggu, 2026-06-07 18:53:40

deluge. Some among that generation even wanted to war against God in heaven (Talmud Sanhedrin 109a). They were encouraged in this undertaking by the notion...

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Solomon in Islam
Senin, 2026-06-01 21:45:34

he was the third ruler of the Israelites and a wise one. In contrast to Talmudic tradition, Muslims maintain that Solomon remained faithful to God throughout...

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Max Weber
Selasa, 2026-05-26 17:17:20

of India, and Ancient Judaism. Intended later studies of Christianity, Talmudic Judaism, and Islam were left unwritten. The books' three main themes were:...

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Chaim Hezekiah Medini
Senin, 2026-05-25 14:48:40

humility the author published the book anonymously. It contains responsa and Talmudic interpretations. He also wrote a halachic work entitled Paku'ot Sadeh (Jerusalem...

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Gabriel
Sabtu, 2026-06-06 04:36:03

Book of Ezekiel is interpreted as Gabriel in Yoma 77a of the Babylonian Talmud. Gabriel is not referred to as an archangel in the Hebrew Bible or the New...

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Yosef Dov Soloveitchik (Beis Halevi)
Senin, 2026-04-27 14:31:29

was the author of Beis Halevi, by which name he is better known among Talmudic scholars. He was the great-grandson of Chaim Volozhin. Yosef Dov Soloveitchik...

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Tractate
Rabu, 2025-07-30 08:31:35

systematically with a subject, may refer to: Masekhet, an organizational element of Talmudic literature Minor tractate, a group of essays on Jewish religious laws Treatise...

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Saureil
Sabtu, 2026-01-03 09:22:13

escorting souls to the afterlife Samael, an important archangel in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore Santa Muerte, a sacred figure venerated primarily in Mexico...

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Synagogal Judaism
Minggu, 2026-03-08 01:57:17

to Talmudic sources, primarily aggadic (non-legal) materials. The "narrative of creation" and the "narrative of the chariot", found in the Talmud, would...

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Yeshiva Toras Chaim
Minggu, 2026-01-25 06:28:09

Yeshiva Toras Chaim (YTC) is an all-male, Lithuanian (Litvish)-style Talmudic academy in the West Colfax neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. YTC was founded...

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Factorial
Minggu, 2026-05-31 08:08:03

in the canonical works of Jain literature, and by Jewish mystics in the Talmudic book Sefer Yetzirah. The factorial operation is encountered in many areas...

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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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Four horns and four craftsmen
Minggu, 2026-04-05 12:47:58

land of Judah, to toss it.” The four craftsmen are discussed in Babylonian Talmud Suk. 52b. Rav Hana bar Bizna attributed to Rav Simeon Hasida the identification...

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

in the Talmud or Midrash. However, from the Talmudic narratives about Jesus it appears that the contents of the Gospel were known to the Talmudic teachers...

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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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Liver
Minggu, 2026-05-31 22:12:11

(specifically wrath, jealousy and greed) which drive men to action. The Talmud (tractate Berakhot 61b) refers to the liver as the seat of anger, with the...

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Joshua Kulp
Senin, 2026-06-01 05:35:40

Joshua Kulp (Hebrew: יהושע קולפ; born July 16, 1970) is an American-Israeli Talmudic scholar. Kulp was born on July 16, 1970, in the United States and grew...

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Noah Dana-Picard
Senin, 2026-04-20 13:20:46

דנה-פיקארד; born May 6, 1954) is an Israeli mathematician, professor and Talmudic scholar who has been the president of the Jerusalem College of Technology...

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Conscription in Israel
Senin, 2026-06-01 02:46:38

Hesder, a concept developed by Rabbi Yehuda Amital, which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF also...

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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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Deir Aziz synagogue
Senin, 2026-04-13 01:49:09

Deir Aziz synagogue is an ancient synagogue dating from the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods, located at the archeological site of Deir Aziz, in the southern...

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Caligae
Kamis, 2025-12-11 01:42:58

approaching Romans and were killed in the resultant stampede (see Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 60a). Caligae would have been cooler on the march than enclosed...

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Chaim Ozer Grodzinski
Senin, 2026-06-08 05:41:17

Av beis din (rabbinical chief justice), posek (halakhic authority), and Talmudic scholar in Vilnius, Lithuania in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...

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Revival of the Hebrew language
Kamis, 2026-06-04 19:49:54

literature, including in judgments of halakha, responsa, Biblical and Talmudic commentaries, and books of meditation. In most cases, certainly in the...

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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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Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer
Sabtu, 2026-03-21 15:33:28

material from the Babylonian Talmud in certain sections. One of its unique features of this work is its extensively uses non-Talmudic literature. The work includes...

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

for hermeneutics and halakhic exegesis, which form the foundation of all Talmudic learning. The enormous difference between the Halakha before and after...

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Pesachim
Senin, 2025-09-22 02:52:07

The Talmud records the views of two third-century Talmudic sages, Rav and Shmuel, regarding the starting point and content of the narrative (Talmud, b...

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Shlomo Nosson Kotler
Rabu, 2026-03-18 00:35:11

קוטלר; 1856 – c. 1920) was an Orthodox rabbi and rosh yeshiva (dean), Talmudic scholar, Torah author and posek (halakhic decisor). Born in Kovno, Lithuania...

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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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Abraham ben David
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 16:53:59

attempts to smuggle in his philosophic views under cover of Talmudic passages. For example: Talmudic opinions on the definition of forbidden divination differ...

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Shraga
Senin, 2026-05-11 13:48:35

Shraga (Talmudic Aramaic: שרגא) is a Jewish given name (meaning "candle" in Talmudic Aramaic) and may refer to: Samuel ben Uri Shraga Phoebus, Polish rabbi...

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Sefer Yetzirah
Jumat, 2026-01-16 03:21:56

the book. Most contemporary scholars date the text's authorship to the Talmudic period. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the essential elements of...

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Ohel (grave)
Selasa, 2025-09-23 14:44:59

Teitelbaum, first and second Satmar Rebbes Biblical figures and Mishnaic and Talmudic sages are typically buried in ohelim:[citation needed] Benjamin (near Kfar...

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Personifications of death
Minggu, 2026-05-17 00:25:39

stems from Talmudic lore. There is also a reference to "Abaddon" (The Destroyer), an angel who is known as the "Angel of the Abyss". In Talmudic lore, he...

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Hammat Tiberias
Rabu, 2026-06-03 06:42:12

since antiquity for their curative properties. According to the Jerusalem Talmud, a village once rested upon the site and was distinct from Tiberias. The...

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Elya Svei
Senin, 2026-06-08 04:47:45

Haredi Jewish rabbi and co-rosh yeshiva (with Shmuel Kamenetsky) of the Talmudical Yeshiva of Philadelphia. He was born in Kaunas and died in Philadelphia...

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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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Johannes Buxtorf
Rabu, 2026-03-25 18:12:50

Johannes Buxtorf (Latin: Johannes Buxtorfius) (December 25, 1564 – September 13, 1629) was a celebrated Hebraist, member of a family of Orientalists; professor...

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Aliyah
Jumat, 2026-06-05 08:28:01

to Palestine, is almost as ancient as the Jewish diaspora itself. Some Talmudic statements ... Almost a millennium later, the poet and philosopher Yehuda...

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Ein Sof
Rabu, 2025-11-12 04:11:15

theorist of the Misnagdim, opposed Hasidic panentheism and re-emphasised Talmudic study. The Sabbatean movement believed in a heterodox doctrine of Lurianic...

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List of colleges and universities in New Jersey
Kamis, 2026-05-14 04:52:03

colleges, nineteen community colleges, thirty one religious institutions (as "Talmudic Institutions/Theological Seminaries"), and fourteen for-profit proprietary...

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Ralph Lauren
Senin, 2026-06-01 08:28:36

U.S. Air Force. Lauren attended day school followed by the Manhattan Talmudical Academy, before eventually graduating from DeWitt Clinton High School...

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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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Angel of Death
Senin, 2026-03-30 17:51:34

Book of Habakkuk Nasirdîn and Sejadin, in Yazidism Samael, in Talmudic and post-Talmudic lore Saureil, in Mandaeism Sariel in some understandings Remiel...

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

shevuah which recall Shavuot. suggesting a link between the two. Most of the Talmudic sages agreed that the Torah was given on the 6 Sivan (the date of Shavuot)...

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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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Warren Goldstein
Rabu, 2025-08-06 10:45:15

Spirit: Jewish Law's Vision for a Moral Society. Goldstein's thesis is that Talmudic law was ahead of its time in terms of political rights, women's rights...

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Gaza
Selasa, 2026-06-02 09:53:07

Porphyry of Gaza (347–420), Bishop of Gaza 395–420 Rabbi Gaza (c. 400), Talmudic sage, contemporary of Ravina I (appears in Shabbat 145b and Yevamot 45b)...

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Johanan bar Nappaha
Rabu, 2026-06-03 12:28:06

during the Talmudic era. Johanan's opinions are quoted widely across the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds. The compilation of the Jerusalem Talmud is generally...

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Jacob Emden
Minggu, 2026-06-07 08:39:26

studies in his father-in-law's yeshiva. Emden mastered all branches of Talmudic literature and later expanded his studies to philosophy, Kabbalah, and...

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

lack of historical evidence. Maimonides and Chaim Kanievsky affirm the Talmudic claim, asserting that Rabbi Meir was Nero’s direct descendant, while Menahem...

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

he was not in the habit of inquiring after women (Ruth Rabba to ii. 5; Talmudic tractate Shabbat 113b). In the conversation that followed between Boaz...

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Golem
Minggu, 2026-05-31 09:35:05

in a stupor. The oldest stories of golems date to early Judaism. In the Talmud (Tractate Sanhedrin 38b), Adam is initially created as a golem (גולם) when...

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System of units of measurement
Jumat, 2026-05-29 04:45:56

Tanzanian Arabic Afghan Cambodian Chinese Hong Kong Hebrew (Biblical and Talmudic) Indian Indonesian Japanese Korean Omani Pakistani Philippine Mesopotamian...

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Natasha Lyonne
Rabu, 2026-05-27 21:47:18

a private Jewish school, where she was a scholarship student who took Talmud classes and read Aramaic. She was expelled in her sophomore year for selling...

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Midrash Vayisau
Senin, 2025-09-01 08:21:24

ISSACHAR BEN-AMI JERUSALEM 1972 Strack, H.L.; Stemberger, G. (1991), Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash, Edinburgh: T&T Clark, ISBN 978-0-8006-2524-5...

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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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Melamed
Senin, 2026-03-16 13:02:36

in general (e.g., in Psalm 119:99 and Proverbs 5:13), but which in the Talmudic period was applied especially to a teacher of children, and was almost...

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Haman in rabbinic literature
Selasa, 2024-06-25 19:25:52

himself thereby their worst enemy, Haman naturally became the center of many Talmudic legends. Being at one time in extreme want, he sold himself as a slave...

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Pesach Stein
Jumat, 2024-05-10 23:11:38

yeshiva not to have studied in Telz and so his methodology and approach to Talmudic analysis were unique to the yeshiva.[citation needed] In 1988, Stein's...

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Tzadik
Kamis, 2026-05-28 06:02:21

especially potent, as the Talmud states: "A tzadik decrees and the Holy One (blessed be He) fulfills." This is line with the Talmudic dictum: Rabban Gamliel...

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

Boethus and was appointed High Priest by Herod Agrippa II. According to Talmudic sources, Martha bribed a "King Jannai" into appointing Joshua High Priest...

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Western Wall
Kamis, 2026-06-04 04:23:31

a term of art meaning "place where prayer is received favorably" (cf. Talmudic idiom "he knocked on the gates of mercy" viz. "he prayed"); others, however...

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Beelzebub
Rabu, 2026-03-25 17:48:57

Pennsylvania Press. October 1898. Retrieved July 17, 2018. The Babylonian Talmud, Vol. 1 of 9: Tract Sabbath – Page 186 "made themselves Baal-berith for...

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Yentl (film)
Senin, 2026-05-18 20:52:08

herself as a man named Anshel so that she can receive an education in Talmudic law. The film's musical score and songs, composed by Michel Legrand, with...

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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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Maon (city in Judah)
Sabtu, 2026-05-09 13:24:33

of the village at that time. A synagogue dating back to the Byzantine/Talmudic period was discovered at Hurvat (Horbat) Ma'on. Two occupation phases were...

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Kosher locust
Sabtu, 2026-02-28 04:07:04

Amar, Zohar (2002), "The Eating of Locusts in Jewish Tradition After the Talmudic Period" (PDF), The Torah U-Madda Journal, 11 Amar, Zohar (2004), The Locust...

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Adolf Rosenzweig
Sabtu, 2026-02-21 16:11:47

August 16, 1918) was a German moderate liberal rabbi and Biblical and Talmudic scholar. In his publications he dealt with historical and archaeological...

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Yom Kippur
Senin, 2026-06-01 10:40:09

17 May 2023. "Erev Yom Kippur – The purpose of the day as seen through Talmudic anecdotes (PDF)" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 June 2008...

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List of Jewish prayers and blessings
Rabu, 2026-06-03 05:47:08

essential component of Jewish services, and is the only service that the Talmud calls prayer. It is said three times a day (four times on Sabbaths and holidays...

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Hanina bar Hama
Sabtu, 2024-10-26 01:01:19

halakhist and aggadist frequently quoted in the Babylonian and the Jerusalem Talmud, and in the Midrashim. He is generally cited by the name R. Hanina, but...

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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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Entering heaven alive
Senin, 2026-05-18 23:20:30

Pharaoh's daughter, sometimes called Bithiah In a similar vein, there is a Talmudic tale about four rabbis: "Four entered the orchard: Ben Azzai, Ben Zoma...

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Hur (Bible)
Jumat, 2026-05-01 05:52:03

of the Jews states that Hur was the husband of Moses' sister Miriam. In Talmudic tradition the sudden disappearance of Hur from the narrative of Exodus...

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Samuel ben Hofni
Minggu, 2025-03-09 12:56:56

Academy in Mesopotamia ("Babylonia") from 998 to 1012. His father was a Talmudic scholar and Av Beit Din or chief jurist, probably of Fez), one of whose...

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Samson ben Abraham of Sens
Kamis, 2026-03-26 21:18:02

founder of the Talmudic School of Acre. This allowed Yehiel of Paris, among others, to settle in Haifa after the trial of the Talmud in 1240 and a new...

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Haggadah
Minggu, 2026-06-07 01:59:08

According to Jewish tradition, the Haggadah developed during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods, although the exact timeframe is unknown. It has existed in different...

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Tumtum (Judaism)
Kamis, 2025-06-05 20:50:11

Babylonian Talmud; 22 times in the Jerusalem Talmud; and hundreds of times in midrash, commentaries, and halacha." In the Babylonian Talmud Yevamot 64a–b...

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Henry A. Fischel
Senin, 2026-03-23 12:08:36

Rhetorica in Midrash (Leiden, 1973). – Essays in Greco-Roman and Related Talmudic Literature, ed. by Henry A. Fischel, (New York: KTAV Publishing, 1977)...

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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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Der Giftpilz
Senin, 2026-03-16 10:07:30

be slaves and asks Jews to enslave the non-Jewish population; and that Talmudic law allows Jews to cheat non-Jews. The weekly Der Stürmer boasted that...

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History of Christianity
Kamis, 2026-06-04 02:03:03

IX because of contents that mocked the central figures of Christianity. Talmudic Judaism came to be seen as so different from biblical Judaism that old...

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Ishim (angel)
Jumat, 2023-03-17 06:54:50

Maimonides. Samuel ibn Tibbon speculated that the term "ishim" has a lost Talmudic origin. Reuven Rappaport suggested Midrash Proverbs to 8:4, which contrasts...

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Palestinians
Jumat, 2026-06-05 06:47:51

during World War II, and the term "Palestinian Talmud", which is an alternative name of the Jerusalem Talmud, used mainly in academic sources. Following...

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Isaac Cohen
Sabtu, 2025-05-17 01:18:01

Isaac Cohen (26 July 1914 – 30 November 2007) was a British Talmudic scholar and Chief Rabbi of Ireland for 20 years. Born in Llanelli, Wales to immigrants...

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

make these indications uncertain. Some scholars have also linked the Talmudic legends of Lulianos and Paphos, two wealthy Jewish brothers, from "the...

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Goliath
Jumat, 2026-06-05 17:21:53

archaeological readings of this classic narrative.36" For a brief overview of Talmudic traditions on Goliath, see Jewish Encyclopedia, "Goliath". Hays, J. Daniel...

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Legend of Destruction
Rabu, 2026-05-20 01:00:44

commonly known as Josephus — Talmudic stories, and other sources. Dar called the film Legend of Destruction to echo the Talmudic legends. Michael Ben Ari...

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Sunderland Talmudical College
Jumat, 2026-03-20 02:09:07

yeshiva's studies are primarily Talmud texts and relevant rabbinic literature. The yeshiva has a rotating cycle of Talmudic tractates it covers in the course...

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

to the coming of the Messiah. The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations...

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Yitzchok Sorotzkin
Jumat, 2026-05-01 01:18:53

former Rosh Yeshiva (dean) of Telshe yeshiva who delivers the most advanced Talmudic lecture at the Mesivta of Lakewood. He is a member of the Moetzes Gedolei...

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Joseph Rosen
Kamis, 2026-05-21 19:31:19

to connect sources from the Talmud to seemingly unrelated situations. Rosen has been described as the foremost Talmudic genius of his time. He is also...

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