As the scene of his activity, Rav first chose Nehardea, where the exilarch appointed him agoranomos, or market-master, and Rabbi Shela made him lecturer ( amora ) of his college ( Jerusalem Talmud Bava Batra v. 15a ; Yoma, 20b ).

In the Talmud ( Tractate Yoma 29a ), Esther is compared to the " morning star ", and is considered the subject of Psalm 22, because its introduction is a " song for the morning star ".

) according the Talmud Tractate ( Yoma 39a ), " Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple ( that is to say around 30ad ) the lot the Lord ’ did not come up in the right ... hand ; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white ; nor did the westernmost light shine "

According to Talmud tractate Yoma, in the absence of a Temple, Jews are obligated to study the High Priest ’ s ritual on Yom Kippur, and this study helps achieve atonement for those who are unable to benefit from its actual performance.

In tractate Yoma, of the Talmud, it states that Tiras is Persia.

" Great is repentance: it brings healing into the world "; " it reaches to the throne of God " ( Hosea 14: 2, 5 ); " it brings redemption " ( Isaiah 59: 20 ); " it prolongs man's life " ( Ezekiel 18: 21 ; Talmud Yoma 86a ).

Repentance and the Day of Atonement only absolve one from sins committed against God ; from sins against another person they absolve only when restitution has been made and the pardon of the offended party has been obtained ( Talmud Yoma 87a ; Mishneh Torah Teshuva2: 9 ).

The Talmud, explaining the laws of Yom Kippur, states that the term " Azazel " designated a rugged mountain or precipice in the wilderness from which the goat was thrown down, using for it as an alternative the word " Ẓoḳ " ( Yoma vi.

The difficulties Hillel had to overcome to gain admittance to the school of Sh ' maya and Abtalion, and the hardships he suffered while pursuing his aim, are told in a touching passage ( Talmud, tractate Yoma 35b ), the ultimate purpose of which is to show that poverty cannot be considered as an obstacle to the study of Torah.

In the Babylonian Talmud the treatises of the order Mo ' ed are arranged as follows: Shabbat, ' Erubin, Pesachim, Beitzah, Hagigah, Mo ' ed Katan, Rosh ha-Shanah, Ta ' anit, Yoma, Sukkah, Sheqalim, Megillah ; while the sequence in the Jerusalem Talmud is Shabbat, Eruvin, Pesachim, Yoma, Sheqalim, Sukkah, Rosh ha-Shanah, Beitzah, Ta ' anit, Megillah, Hagigah, Mo ' ed ' Katan.

According Babylonian Talmud Tractate Yoma, the Kodesh Hakodashim is located in the center North-South but significantly to the West from an East-West perspective, with all the major courtyards and functional areas lying to its east.

* Ketoret Incense spices: "... stacte, onycha, and galbanum, ... and frankincense ..." Based on Exodus 30: 34-36 ; 7-8 ..." myrrh, cassia, spikenard, saffron, costus, aromatic bark, cinnamon, ley, salt, amber ..." based on the Babylonian Talmud Kritut 6a ; Jerusalem Talmud Yoma 4: 5 ; 33a.

Among the dozens of sources for the laws of " Pikuach Nefesh " ( the Jewish term for saving any life ) is the multiple discussions in the Talmud, for instance B. Yoma 83a ( translated from the original Judeo-Aramaic ) " We have agreed in the case of saving a soul he may be given a doctor in this case to eat even unclean things, until his eyes are lightened from death ".

A parallel to the Yoma 19b has " Sadducees " instead of " Boethusians "; and in other passages the Talmud undoubtedly uses these two terms indifferently in designating the same sect.

According to tractate Yoma, in the Talmud, Tiras is the ancestor of Persia.

According to tractate Yoma, in the Talmud, Gomer is identified as the ancestor of the Gomermians, modern Germans.

On Yom Kippur additional prohibitions are observed similar to the fast of Tisha B ' Av, as detailed in the Jewish oral tradition ( Mishnah tractate Yoma 8: 1 ) because the Torah stipulates that ועניתם את נפשתיכם " and you shall afflict your souls " and the Talmud therefore defines self-imposed " affliction " during Yom Kippur only, as follows:

( It should be noted that in the account given of the same events, in rabbinic sources ( b. Talmud Shabbat 99a ; Exodus Rabbah 41 ) and in the Qur ' an, Aaron is not the idol-maker and upon Moses ' return begged his pardon as he had felt mortally threatened by the Israelites ( Quran 7: 142-152 ).

In this noble prayer are evinced profound religious feeling and exalted thought, as well as ability to use the Hebrew language in a natural, expressive, and classical manner ( Jerusalem Talmud Rosh Hashanah i. 57a ).

*" Man will be called to account for having deprived himself of the good things which the world offered " ( Jerusalem Talmud Kiddushin end ).

It is not clear why the present order of the books in the Tanakh does not match the order given in the Talmud ( nor does it match that of the Christian Old Testament ).

Also, according to the Talmud Yerushalmi, David was born and died on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot ( Feast of Weeks ).

The Beit Yosef is a huge commentary on the Tur in which Rabbi Karo traces the development of each law from the Talmud through later rabbinical literature ( examining thirty-two authorities, beginning with the Talmud and ending with the works of Rabbi Israel Isserlein ).

( Talmud tractate Megillah 15a ).

( Talmud Shabbat 127a ).

" ( Talmud Sanhedrin 34a ).

According to Rabbinic tradition, all valid interpretations of the written Torah were revealed to Moses at Sinai in oral form, and handed down from teacher to pupil ( The oral revelation is in effect coextensive with the Talmud itself ).

Yom Kippur is considered, along with 15th of Av, as the happiest days of the year ( Talmud Bavli-Tractate Ta ' anit ).

Beruryah however was actually remembered with great respect in the Talmud where she is lauded to have been reputed as such a genius that she studied “ three hundred Halachot from three hundred sages in just one day ” ( Pesachim 62b ).

In addition to bridging this class gap, Hasidic teachings sought to reintroduce joy in the performance of the commandments and in prayer through the popularisation of Jewish mysticism ( this joy had been suppressed in the intense intellectual study of the Talmud ).

These families are from the tribe of Levi ( Levites ) and in twenty-four instances are called by scripture as such ( Jerusalem Talmud to Mishnaic tractate Maaser Sheini p. 31a ).

He is famed as the author of a comprehensive commentary on the Talmud, as well as a comprehensive commentary on the Tanakh ( Hebrew Bible ).

Voluminous supercommentaries have been published on Rashi's commentaries on the Bible and Talmud, including Gur Aryeh by Rabbi Judah Loew ( the Maharal ), Sefer ha-Mizrachi by Rabbi Elijah Mizrachi ( the Re ' em ), and Yeri ' ot Shlomo by Rabbi Solomon Luria ( the Maharshal ).

Observance of Sukkot is detailed in the Book of Nehemiah and Leviticus 23: 34-44 in the Bible, the Mishnah ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 5: 8 ); the Tosefta ( Sukkah 1: 1 – 4: 28 ); and the Jerusalem Talmud ( Sukkah 1a –) and Babylonian Talmud ( Sukkah 2a – 56b ).

The Talmud Bavli consists of documents compiled over the period of Late Antiquity ( 3rd to 5th centuries ).

A page number in the Talmud refers to a double-sided page, known as a daf ; each daf has two amudim labeled and, sides A and B ( Recto and Verso ).

Another influential medieval Halakhic work following the order of the Babylonian Talmud, and to some extent modelled on Alfasi, was " the Mordechai ", a compilation by Mordechai ben Hillel ( c. 1250 – 1298 ).

By far the best known commentary on the Babylonian Talmud is that of Rashi ( Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, 1040 – 1105 ).

The Tosafot are collected commentaries by various medieval Ashkenazic Rabbis on the Talmud ( known as Tosafists ).

Rashi 30: 12 ); for when he ascended the throne he was as pure as a child, and had never committed sin ( Yoma 22b ).

25, maintains that manna is the actual food of the angels ( Yoma, 75b ).

), ' Israel's hope is God '" ( Mishnah Yoma, end ).

— one who is tested and emerges guiltless " ( Yoma 86b ).

He avoided association with people of whose probity he was not fully convinced ; hence the testimony of any one allowed to associate with Simeon b. Lakish was accredited even in the absence of witnesses ( Yoma 9a ).