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 the Mishnah and Talmud, the Men of the Great Assembly instituted the requirement that Jews both in Judea and in the diaspora pray three times a day ( morning, afternoon and evening ), and include in their prayers a recitation of these passages in the morning (" Shacharit ") and evening (" Ma ' ariv ") prayers.

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 rabbinic tradition, the Tosefta was redacted by Rabbis Ḥiya and Oshaiah ( a student of Ḥiya ).

According to Rambam ( Introduction to Mishna Torah ), the baraitot were compiled by Rabbi Hoshaya and Bar Kappara, although no compilation was passed down to us like the Tosefta was.

According to Maimonides, scalp and beard nega ' im are characterized by hair loss without any change to the skin of the bald spot The Tosefta, however, maintains that the skin of the bald spot does indeed become altered in a negah.

According to Abraham ben David, who quotes the Tosefta, this spreading would refer to spreading of a skin change as well ( Leviticus 13: 36 ).

According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp ", while John J. Collins writes that while the civil war between Jewish leaders led to the king's new policies, it is wrong to see the revolt as simply a conflict between Hellenism and Judaism, since " The revolt was not provoked by the introduction of Greek customs ( typified by the building of a gymnasium ) but by the persecution of people who observed the Torah by having their children circumcised and refusing to eat pork.

According to Joseph P. Schultz, modern scholarship " considers the Maccabean revolt less as an uprising against foreign oppression than as a civil war between the orthodox and reformist parties in the Jewish camp.

According to Josephus, Herod was also of Maccabean descent:

According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

According to Herodian he was well proportioned and attractive, with naturally blonde and curly hair.

According to the historian Herodian, in AD 216, Caracalla tricked the Parthians into believing that he accepted a marriage and peace proposal, but then had the bride and guests slaughtered after the wedding celebrations.

According to Herodian he had governed provinces, but the list of seven provinces given in the Historia Augusta, as well as the statement that Balbinus had been both Proconsul of Asia and of Africa, are likely to be mere invention.

According to Edward Gibbon ( drawing upon the narratives of Herodian and the Historia Augusta ):

According to Edward Gibbon ( drawing on the narratives of Herodian and the Historia Augusta ), the choice was sensible, as:

* According to the History of Free Masonry, Volume 6, Heredia is a name derived from Herod the Great and his Herodian Kingdom.

According to Jewish tradition, the Haggadah was compiled during the Mishnaic and Talmudic periods, although the exact date is unknown.

According to the Talmud and Midrash, this day marks the hillula ( celebration, interpreted by some as anniversary of death ) of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a Mishnaic sage and leading disciple of Rabbi Akiva in the 2nd century, and the day on which he revealed the deepest secrets of kabbalah in the form of the Zohar, a landmark text of Jewish mysticism.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

According to Montgomery and Hammer Daniel's use of the word ' Chaldean ' to refer to astrologers in general is an anachronism, as during the Neo-Babylonian and early Persian periods ( when Daniel is said to have lived ), it referred only to an ethnicity.

According to his website, three extended periods of his fasting have been observed under control of scientific and medical teams, the first lasting 211 days in 1995 – 96, in Calicut, India, under the direction of Dr C. K. Ramachandran.

According to quantum theory, the particles do not possess definite positions during the periods between measurements.

According to the 2002 census there are 400550 Tatars in Siberia, but 300, 000 of them are Volga Tatars who settled in Siberia during periods of colonization.

According to the Köppen climate classification, Como has a humid subtropical climate ( Cfa ); winters are not long, but foggy, damp and chilly with occasional periods of frost from the siberian anticyclone ; spring and autumn are well marked and pleasant, while summer can be quite oppressive, hot and humid.

According to the different periods, conquerors and circumstances, the population of the island kept changing.

According to Laqueur, conflicting statements about Jews in the Qur ' an have affected Muslim attitudes towards Jews to this day, especially during periods of rising Islamic fundamentalism.

According to Geoffrey Cannon, science and health policy advisor to the World Cancer Research Fund, humans are designed to work hard physically to produce food for subsistence and to survive periods of acute food shortage, and are not adapted to a diet rich in energy-dense foods.

According to the Companion, in various periods of history people from the real world withdrew to Daventry, which explains how historical and mythical elements exist there.

According to an article in Theology Today published in 1975, " There have been long periods in the history of the church when biblical inerrancy has not been a critical question.

According to Pat Metheny, McLaughlin has changed the evolution of the guitar during several of his periods of playing.

According to herpetologists who study the Solomon Islands skink, such as Dr. David Kirkpatrick and Dr. Kevin Wright, captive breeding alone is not practical as a sole method of species survival due to the limited number of offspring and long gestation periods.

According to the General Counsel, " The phrase that the Secretary must find the circumstances of captivity to be comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict does not mean that the event must occur during an armed conflict such as World Wars I & II, the Korean War, Vietnam War, etc.

According to the legislative history of the 1989 amendment to the POW Medal statute, internees were intended beneficiaries of the POW Medal so long as they were treated comparably to POWs during periods of armed conflict.

According to the Navy's Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General for Administrative Law, the Marines held in Tehran were " entitled to award of the medal if the Secretary determines that circumstances under which they were held captive were ' comparable to those under which persons have generally been held captive by enemy armed forces during periods of armed conflict.

" According to Roche, the USAF hostages qualified because " were held by a foreign armed force hostile to the United States and were under circumstances comparable to prisoners held by enemy forces during periods of armed conflict ," a clear reference to the 1989 amendment.

According to Fomenko, this led early chronologists to believe or choose to believe that those accounts described different events and even different countries and time periods.

According to Höss, during standard camp operations, two to three trains carrying 2, 000 prisoners each would arrive daily for periods of four to six weeks.

According to this, " repeated cycles of ovulation-induced trauma and repair of the OSE surface epithelium at the site of ovulation, without pregnancy-induced rest periods, contributes to ovarian cancer development.

U. S. citizens therefore cannot avoid U. S. taxes simply by emigrating from the U. S. According to Forbes magazine some citizens choose to give up their United States citizenship rather than be subject to the U. S. tax system ; however, U. S. citizens who reside ( or spend long periods of time ) outside the U. S. may be able to exclude some salaried income earned overseas ( but not other types of income unless specified in a bilateral tax treaty ) from income in computing the U. S. federal income tax.

According to Villani, Landini was given a crown of laurel by the King of Cyprus, who was in Venice for several periods during the 1360s.

According to a study of anorexia nervosa patients, ferritin can be elevated during periods of acute malnourishment, perhaps due to iron going into storage as intravascular volume and thus the number of red blood cells falls.

According to the traditional Finnish mindset, it is preferable to lose control with alcohol or to even use it excessively over long periods of time, than to experiment with cannabis, which is seen both as very dangerous in itself and as a " gateway drug ".