Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

Another Talmudic story, perhaps referring to an earlier time, relates that three Torah scrolls were found in the Temple court but were at variance with each other.

The Talmudic sages teach that Isaac was thirty-seven, likely based on the next biblical story, which is of Sarah's death at 127, being 90 when Isaac was born.

In one Talmudic story, Joseph was buried in the Nile river, as there was some dispute as to which province should be honored by having his tomb within its boundaries.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

The demon is also mentioned in some Talmudic legends, for instance, in the story of the construction of the Temple of Solomon.

The name Aish HaTorah, literally " Fire the Torah ", was inspired by the Talmudic story of Rabbi Akiva, the once illiterate 40-year-old shepherd who subsequently became the most famous sage of the Mishnah.

The story of the wonder-stone is not found in the Syriac Christian legend, but is found in Jewish Talmudic traditions about Alexander as well as in Persian traditions.

The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations from Elijah the Prophet and the Messiah.

" The importance of study is attested to in another Talmudic discussion ( Kiddushin 40b ) about which is preferred: study or action.

The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations from Elijah the Prophet and the Messiah.

Those aspects of Jewish / Talmudic law which Dor Daim may emphasize, be particularly passionate about, and / or consider to have been cast aside by large portions of the Jewish world include:

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary silently follows Sir Henry Rawlinson in interpreting the Talmudic passage Joma 10a identifying Calneh with the modern Nippur, a lofty mound of earth and rubbish situated in the marshes on the east bank of the Euphrates, but 30 miles distant from its present course, and about 60 miles south-south-east from Babylon.

" Jerusalem of Gold " is a reference to a special piece of jewelry mentioned in a famous Talmudic legend about Rabbi Akiva ; " To all your songs, I am a lyre " is a quote from a poem by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi.

Five lectures are about the history of Jewish women, five deal with Talmudic topics, two deal with Biblical themes, three with pastoral issues, and nine offer general introductions to Jewish beliefs, ethics, and the festivals.

Rabbi Jacob Pollak ( other common spelling Yaakov Pollack ) was the founder of the Polish method of halakic and Talmudic study known as the Pilpul ; born about 1460 ; died at Lublin in 1541.

In addition to undertaking the now ubiquitous Judaica Press Mikraoth Gedoloth Nach ( Prophets and Writings of the Tanakh-Hebrew Bible ) series, Goldman immediately went about acquiring the rights to some of the major works of Jewish scholarship at the time: The Blackman Mishnayoth set, the Hirsch Humash set, and the Jastrow Dictionary of Talmudic Aramaic words.

Abba Mari possessed considerable Talmudic knowledge and some poetical talent ; but his zeal for the Law made him an agitator and a persecutor of all the advocates of liberal thought.

Weber's premature death in 1920 prevented him from following his planned analysis of Psalms, the Book of Job, Talmudic Jewry, early Christianity and Islam.

He then went up Mount Nebo to the top of Pisgah, looked over the promised land of Israel spread out before him, and died, at the age of one hundred and twenty, according to Talmudic legend on 7 Adar, his 120th birthday exactly.

Frankel's duties as professor of Talmudic literature showed him the necessity of modern scientific text-books upon rabbinical literature and archeology.

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 investigation of the development of Talmudic law.

Rabbinic ( Talmudic ) scholarship always assumed non-accession reckoning for kings, whereby the first partial year of a king was double-counted both for him and as the last year of the deceased king.

He would guide Rabbi Avraham in Talmudic scholarship, and the Malach would teach him Hasidic philosophy.

Eddy and Boyd, who question the value of several of the Talmudic references state that the significance of the Talmud to historical Jesus research is that it never denies the existence of Jesus, but accuses him of sorcery, thus indirectly confirming his existence.

Thus they reproached him because he wrote in Hebrew instead of in the customary Talmudic idiom, because he departed from the Talmudic order and introduced a division and arrangement of his own, and because he dared to sometimes decide according to the Tosefta and the Jerusalem Talmud as against the Babylonian Talmud.

... Is it not a case of a fortiori, that regarding the School of Shammai — that the halakhah does not go according to them — they Talmudic Sages said ‘ if practices like the School of Shammai may do so, but according to their leniencies and their stringencies ’: The RaMBaM, is the greatest of all the Torah authorities, and all the communities of the Land of Israel and the Arab-controlled lands and the West Africa practice according to his word, and accepted him upon themselves as their Chief Rabbi.

Furthermore, the current text of the Talmud is fairly corrupt with numerous textual variants ; from this, coupled with Maimonides ' indications that he had far more accurate and complete Talmudic texts available to him, they conclude that the Mishneh Torah provides the best access to what the Talmud must originally have intended.

As the protagonist of a series of novels, Rabbi Small has wisdom, an unerring sense of Jewish tradition ( which can at times put him at odds with the Jewish community when he believes that they are seriously deviating from Judaism ) and all the good qualities of a detective sharpened by his Talmudic training, which enables him to see the third side of a problem.

His father sent him to Salonica to pursue his Talmudic studies, where he became the pupil of Joseph Fasi.

Though the Murex fulfilled many of the Talmudic criteria, Rabbi Herzog's inability to consistently obtain blue dye ( sometimes the dye was purple ) from the snail precluded him from proclaiming that the dye source had been found.

Weber's premature death in 1920 prevented him from following Ancient Judaism with his planned analysis of Psalms, Book of Jacob, Talmudic Jewry, early Christianity and Islam.

In a discourse in the synagogue at Safed, Berab defended the legality of his ordination from a Talmudic standpoint, and showed the nature of the rights conferred upon him.

Another shortcoming is his rationalistic attitude toward the narratives in Talmudic sources, which leads him to see in many of the Talmudic authors shrewd impostors who played on the credulity of their contemporaries by feigning miracles ( see his presentation of Eliezer ben Hyrcanus in his Allgemeine Geschischte, ii.

Around this time, one of America's senior rabbis and president of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis, Rabbi Bernard Levinthal of Philadelphia, visited the yeshiva and, after discussing Talmudic topics with the new student, invited him to come to Philadelphia as the rabbi's secretary and assistant.

It is clear that ibn Megas was a great scholar: Maimonides in the introduction to his Mishnah commentary says " the Talmudic learning of this man amazes every one who understands his words and the depth of his speculative spirit ; so that it might almost be said of him that his equal has never existed.

He always took the Talmudic tractate of Niddah with him and tried to learn all 72 folio-pages during the flight.

This relates to a Talmudic discussion that concerns the number of cups that are supposed to be drunk.

The Mishnah may also not have recorded a specific text because of an aversion to making prayer a matter of rigor and fixed formula, an aversion that continued at least to some extent throughout the Talmudic period, as evidenced by the opinions of R. Eliezer ( Talmud Ber.

B. on No. 886 ) mentions a R. Judah of Gornish, and Abraham ibn Akra ( Meharere Nemerim, Venice, 1599 ) reproduces Talmudic novellae by " M. of Gornish " ( Embden gives " Meïr of Gornish " in the Latin translation of the catalogue of the Oppenheim Library, No. 667 ).

" In publishing the דרכי משה, R. Isserles rendered a great service to Ashkenazic Jewry, for he reestablished its Talmudic authorities as the deciding factor in determining a law.

In contrast to other great Achronim such as R ' Chaim Soloveitchik, the Chazon Ish is known for avoiding formulaic or methodical analysis of Talmudic passages, instead preferring a more varied and intuitive approach similar to that of the Rishonim.

To appease the sensitive Chiyya, Abbahu modestly declared, " We are like two merchants, one selling diamonds and the other selling trinkets, which are more in demand " ( Sotah 40a ). Talmudic Sages like R. Meir combined the functions of a darshan and a maggid ( Sanhedrin 38b ).

This explains why R ' Heller, one of the greatest of Talmudic scholars, is buried in such an undistinguished section of the cemetery.