According to the Mishnah and Tosefta, in the Maccabean, Herodian, and Mishnaic periods, new months were determined by the sighting of a new crescent, with two eye witnesses required to testify to the Sanhedrin to having seen the new lunar crescent at sunset.

According to the Mishnah, it marks the day from which fruit tithes are counted each year, and marks the timepoint from which the Biblical prohibition on eating the first three years of fruit and the requirement to bring the fourth year fruit to the Temple in Jerusalem were counted.

According to Orthodox Judaism, Jewish law today is based on the commandments in the Torah, as viewed through the discussions and debates contained in classical rabbinic literature, especially the Mishnah and the Talmud.

According to the same tradition, these 60 years are said to have been so symmetrically apportioned that each treatise required six months for the study of its Mishnah and the redaction of the traditional expositions of the same ( Gemara ), thus aggregating 30 years for the 60 treatises.

According to a tradition which has historical confirmation, it was Akiva who systematized and brought into methodic arrangement the Mishnah, or Halakah codex ; the Midrash, or the exegesis of the Halakah ; and the Halakot, the logical amplification of the Halakah ( Yer.

According to the Mishnah ( Megillah 30b ),, the story of the attack on the Jews by Amalek, the progenitor of Haman, is also to be read.

According to the Mishnah Hillel went to Jerusalem with the intention of studying Biblical exposition and tradition at the age of 40 in 70 BCE.

* According to the Mishnah, Torah wisdom is acquired via 48 ways ( Pirkei Avoth 6: 6 )

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia article on circumcision of proselytes, in the 1st century CE, before the Mishnah was edited, the requirement for circumcision of proselytes was an open issue between the zealots and liberal parties in ancient Israel.

According to many, the " oral Torah " was ultimately recorded in the Mishnah, the Talmud and Midrash.

According to this latter form of ceremony, the water used for washing was perfumed by rose, myrtle, or aromatic spices ; the use of spices was an ancient practice, and the Mishnah especially mentions the washing ceremonies using myrtle.

According to the Mishnah, the regular Temple orchestra consisted of twelve instruments, and the choir of twelve male singers.

According to the Mishnah a mamzer is the offspring of a Biblically forbidden union ( M. Yebamoth 4, Mishnah 13: " כל שחיבין עליו כרת בידי שמים ".

According to Mishnah Parah, the presence of two black hairs invalidates a Red Heifer, in addition to the usual requirements of an unblemished animal for sacrifice.

According to the Mishnah, the ceremony of the burning of the red heifer itself took place on the Mount of Olives.

According to his driver, Asa Wittow, he always sat with a Torah book in front of him, even at a wedding, and propped a Mishnah Berurah on the shelf above his kitchen sink while he washed dishes.

According to the Mishnah Berurah, his reasoning was based on the fact that it was similar to non-Jewish rites.

According to the Talmud, extinction of the soul is reserved for a far much smaller group of malicious and evil leaders, either whose very evil deeds go way beyond norms, or who lead large groups of people to utmost evil.

According to the Talmud ( Avodah Zarah 10a-b ), Rabbi Judah was very wealthy and greatly revered in Rome.

According to the Talmud, Amram promulgated the laws of marriage and divorce amongst the Jews in Egypt ; the Talmud also argues that Amram had extreme longevity, which he used to ensure that doctrines were preserved through several generations.

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the difference between a concubine and a full wife was that the latter received a marriage contract ( Hebrew: ketubah ) and her marriage ( nissu ' in ) was preceded by a formal betrothal ( erusin ), neither being the case for a concubine.

According to the Talmud, however, the point of Qoheleth is to state that all is futile under the Sun.

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Makot ), there are 613 mitzvot (" commandments ") in the Torah ; in Hebrew these are known as the Taryag mitzvot תרי " ג מצוות.

According to the Talmud,

According to the Talmud,

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 ).

According to the Talmud, at the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

According to the Talmud he was of the Davidic line, the royal line of King David, hence the title nasi, meaning prince.

According to the Talmud ( Avodah Zarah 10a-b ), Judah haNasi was very wealthy and greatly revered in Rome.

According to the Talmud, prayer is a Biblical commandment and the Talmud gives two reasons why there are three basic prayers: to recall the daily sacrifices at the Temple in Jerusalem, and / or because each of the Patriarchs instituted one prayer: Abraham the morning, Isaac the afternoon and Jacob the evening.

According to the Talmud ( tractate Taanit 2a ), prayer is a Biblical command: "' You shall serve God with your whole heart.

According to the Talmud, soon after the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem a formal version of the Amidah was adopted at a rabbinical council in Yavne, under the leadership of Rabban Gamaliel II and his colleagues.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the ' deadline ' by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation.

According to the Talmud, homosexuality is forbidden between non-Jews as well, and is included among the sexual restrictions of the Noachide laws.

According to the Talmud, after the Seleucid desecration of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem, there was only enough sealed ( and therefore not desecrated ) consecrated olive oil left to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

According to the Talmud, Obadiah is said to have been a convert to Judaism from Edom, a descendant of Eliphaz, the friend of Job.

According to the Talmud and the commentary of Rashi, rice is not chametz.

According to this, the followers of the Talmud would have to remain in a condition of political servitude until Judgment Day.

According to the Talmud there were also seven women who are counted as prophets whose message bears relevance for all generations: Sarah, Miriam, Devorah, Hannah ( mother of the prophet Samuel ), Abigail ( a wife of King David ), Huldah ( from the time of Jeremiah ), and Esther.

According to Jacques Barzun: Voltaire, who had felt annoyed by the first essay the Arts and Sciences, was outraged by the second, on the Origin of Inequality Among Men, declaring that Rousseau wanted us to “ walk on all fours ” like animals and behave like savages, believing them creatures of perfection.

According to the accounts of those encountering them, Men in Black always seem to have detailed information on the persons they contact, as if the individuals had been under surveillance for a significant period of time.

According to the Talmud, much of the contents of the Tanakh were compiled by the " Men of the Great Assembly " by 450 BCE, and have since remained unchanged.

According to the Talmud ( Bava Batra 14b-15a, Rashi to Megillah 3a, 14a ), much of the contents of the Tanakh was compiled by the Men of the Great Assembly ( Anshei K ' nesset HaGedolah ), a task completed in 450 BCE, and have remained unchanged since that date.

According to former stage manager David Blayney ( 15 years with ZZ Top ) in his book, Sharp Dressed Men, sound engineer Linden Hudson co-wrote much of the material on the album as a live-in high-tech music teacher to Beard and Gibbons.

According to the author in the prologue to The Lord of the Rings, Hobbits are " relatives " of the race of Men.

According to the narrative, Gondor was founded by brothers Isildur and Anárion, exiles from the downfallen island kingdom of Númenor, and along with Arnor in the north served as a last stronghold of the Men of the West.

According to the title page of A Shrew, the play had been performed recently by Pembroke's Men.

According to the Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward book All the President's Men ( 1974 ), Liddy did this once at a dinner party.

According to Frank S. Nugent, " this third of the trademarked Thin Men takes its murders as jauntily as ever, confirms our impression that matrimony need not be too serious a business and provides as light an entertainment as any holiday-amusement seeker is likely to find.

According to the ad, Gen. Ashley was looking for " Enterprising Young Men " to explore the Missouri River and engage in the fur trade business in the Rocky Mountains.

Notable workshop students and faculty include former faculty Robert Penn Warren, author of All the King's Men, former student Flannery O ' Connor, former student John Irving, author of The World According to Garp, former student Gail Godwin, former faculty Philip Roth, author of Goodbye Columbus and American Pastoral, former student Michael Cunningham, author of The Hours, and former faculty Kurt Vonnegut, author of books such as Cat's Cradle, Breakfast of Champions, and Slaughterhouse-Five.

According to Gwindor's words, Túrin was very tall, " as tall as are the Men from the misty hills of Hithlum ," in which he supposedly took after his grandfather Galdor the Tall since both Húrin and the Folk of Bëor were shorter than was usual among the Men of Hador.

She is best known for her roles as Alison Parker on Melrose Place, Georgia Thomas on Ally McBeal, and Cheryl in According to Jim, as well as her recurring role on Two and a Half Men as Lyndsey McElroy.

According to Grey Owl in The Men of the Last Frontier, trappers swarmed to the forests in higher numbers then ever before in 1930 because of the beaver ’ s scarcity, and he argued that the only way to save this animal was to remove all of the trappers from the forests.

According to Eliot Asinof's account of the events, Eight Men Out, Cicotte was " rested " for the season's final two weeks after reaching his 29th win, presumably to deny him the bonus.

: Evidence: According to the title page of the 1594 quarto, the play had been performed by Pembroke's Men, a company which ceased performing in September 1593.

According to the budoji ( 1953 ), Hwanin is the grandson of Hwang-gung 황궁 ( 黃穹 ), one of the Four Men of Heaven and considered a direct ancestor of the Korean people.

According to the Elves and other Men, they had " unlovely faces ": wide, flat, and expressionless with deep-set black eyes that glowed red when angered.

According to legend, Men now lose the gift to die at will as the result of divine punishment, and are doomed to lead short life-spans at the end of which death takes them by force.

However these rumors have not been verified, nor will the shutdown of TeleFutura happen anytime soon ; According to Nielsen Media Research, in February 2007 TeleFutura made significant gains in viewership at the expense of Telemundo, actually taking over second place among Spanish-language networks in the Adults 18-34, Men 18-34 and Men 18-49 demographics.

According to Asimov's fictional history of robotics, Susan Calvin was born in 1982, the same year that US Robots and Mechanical Men was incorporated.