*" It is better to cast oneself into a fiery furnace than publicly to put to shame one's fellow creature " ( Bava Metzia 59a ).

Being wise, handsome, and wealthy ( Bava Metzia 84a ; Yer.

24b ; Bava Metzia 14a, 75a ).

( The current total is 63, but Makkot was originally part of Sanhedrin, and Bava Kamma, Bava Metzia and Bava Batra may be regarded as subdivisions of a single tractate Nezikin.

** Bava Metzia, a tractate in Nezikin.

# Bava Metzia ( בבא מציעא, Middle Gate ) deals with civil matters, largely torts and property law.

Ohr Somayach on Talmudic tractates ' Bava Kama ' and ' Bava Metzia '.

Based on Rabbi Lichtenstein's Talmud classes at Yeshivat Har Etzion, his students ' notes have been edited and published as Shiurei Harav Aharon Lichtenstein on Tohorot, Zevahim, the eighth chapter of Bava Metzia, the third chapter of Bava Batra, the Ramban's pamphlet on Dinah DiGarmi, the first chapter of Pesahim and several critical chapters of Gittin.

It is discussed in the Talmud in Seder Nezikin in tractates Bava Kamma and Bava Metzia.

* Chidushei HaRim on Bava Metzia link

Mar Samuel was very modest in his associations with others, openly honoring any one from whom he had gained any knowledge ( Bava Metzia 33a ).

The Tosefta on Keilim consists of twenty-five chapters, divided into Bava Kama (" First Gate "), Bava Metzia (" Middle Gate "), and Bava Batra (" Final Gate ") of Keilim.

In another instance, Rabbi Joshua praises her intervention in a debate between Rabbi Tarfon and the sages, saying " Bruriah has spoken correctly " ( Tosefta Keilim Bava Metzia 1: 3 ).

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 ).

Berakhot ii. 4b ; Gittin 44b ; Bava Batra 39a ).

The Talmud in Bava Batra 14b gives a different order for the books in Nevi ' im and Ketuvim.

The order of the books of Ketuvim given in the Talmud ( Bava Batra 14b-15a ), though it differs from the Ashkenazic order, also places Chronicles at the end of Ketuvim.

The Talmudic tractate Bava Batra ( 15a-b ) maintains that Job was written by Moses, although nowhere does it name its author.

Sometimes dismissed as low-quality escapist fare, the Peplums allowed newer directors such as Sergio Leone and Mario Bava, a means of breaking into the film industry.

Italy has produced many important cinematography auteurs, including Federico Fellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Roberto Rossellini, Vittorio De Sica, Ettore Scola, Sergio Leone, Dario Argento, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Bernardo Bertolucci, Franco Zeffirelli, Mario Bava, Sergio Corbucci, Lucio Fulci, Mario Monicelli, Marco Ferreri, Elio Petri, Ermanno Olmi, Umberto Lenzi, Lina Wertmüller, and Luchino Visconti.

During the 1960s and 70s, Italian filmmakers Mario Bava, Riccardo Freda, Antonio Margheriti and Dario Argento developed giallo horror films that become classics and influenced the genre in other countries.

In France, Eyes Without a Face ( 1960 ) continued the mad scientist theme, while in Italy director Mario Bava began his own series of horror films.

In the Babylonian Talmud ( Bava Batra 14B ) Moses writes the first Torah Scroll on the unsplit cow-hide called gevil.

This is true of the tractate Makkot, the concluding portions of which were composed by his son-in-law, Rabbi Judah ben Nathan, and of the tractate Bava Batra, finished ( in a more detailed style ) by his grandson, the Rashbam.

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.

The Talmud El Am contains Hebrew text, English translation and commentary by Rabbi Dr A. Ehrman, with short ' realia ', marginal notes, often illustrated, written by experts in the field for the whole of Tractate Berakhot, 2 chapters of Bava Mezia and the halachic section of Qiddushin, chapter 1.

Commentaries ( ḥiddushim ) by Joseph ibn Migash on two tractates, Bava Batra and Shevuot, based on Ḥananel and Alfasi, also survive, as does a compilation by Zechariah Aghmati called Sefer ha-Ner.

In 1988, three volumes were published posthumously on the order of Nezikin, including tractates Bava Kama, Bava Metziah, and Bava Basrah.

7 ( it is to be interpreted thus according to Bava Batra 14a ), that Aaron's Rod, together with its blossoms and fruit, was preserved in the Ark.

Orthodox, Sephardim, a majority of Israeli Jews and other Jews, including many whom are not observant, reject critical Bible scholarship and the documentary hypothesis, holding to the opinion that it is contradicted by the Torah in Deuteronomy 31: 24, 25 and 26, and the Talmud ( Gittin 60a, Bava Basra 15b ), which state that Moses wrote the Torah, as well as by the Mishnah, which asserts the divine origin of the Torah as one of the essential tenets of Judaism.

* Mario Bava's 1971 film, Twitch of the Death Nerve ( aka Carnage ), written by Bava, Giuseppe Zaccariello and Filippo Ottoni, features dialogue around the 10-minute mark describing the squonk and its attributes.

The Talmud ( in Bava Kamma, 83b-84a ), interprets the verses referring to " an eye for an eye " and similar expressions as mandating monetary compensation in tort cases and argues against the interpretations by Sadducees that the Bible verses refer to physical retaliation in kind, using the argument that such an interpretation would be inapplicable to blind or eyeless offenders.

* The Whip and the Body ( La Frusta e il Corpo ) ( 1963 ), directed by Mario Bava and starring Christopher Lee and Daliah Lavi

The Anthony Quinn film Attila ( directed by Pietro Francisci in 1954 ), the Kirk Douglas epic Ulysses ( co-directed by an uncredited Mario Bava in 1954 ) and Helen of Troy ( directed by Robert Wise with Sergio Leone as an uncredited second unit director in 1955 ) were the first of the big peplum films of the 1950s.

A few examples include Five Dolls for an August Moon ( 1970 ) directed by Mario Bava, Identity ( 2003 ), Mindhunters ( 2004 ), made-for-television films ( Dead Man's Island, 1996 ), a miniseries ( Harper's Island, 2009 ), and episodic television such as The Avengers (" The Superlative Seven "), The Wild Wild West (" The Night of The Tottering Tontine ") both from 1967, and Remington Steele (" Steele Trap ") in 1982.

Giallo films that follow a murder mystery format include Five Dolls for an August Moon ( 1970 ) by Mario Bava, three by director Dario Argento: The Cat o ' Nine Tails, Four Flies on Grey Velvet ( both 1971 ), and Deep Red ( 1975 ) – as well as A Lizard in a Woman's Skin ( 1971 ), Black Belly of the Tarantula ( 1971 ), Who Saw Her Die?

Bava directed what is now regarded as the first Italian giallo film, The Girl Who Knew Too Much ( 1963 ), and his 1965 sci-fi horror film Planet of the Vampires was a thematic precursor to Alien ( 1979 ).

In 1980, he wrote the screenplay for Macabro ( Frozen Terror, or Macabre ), the first movie directed by Lamberto Bava.

Parts of his commentary on the Talmud have been preserved, and they appear on the pages of most of tractate Bava Batra ( where no commentary by Rashi is available ), as well as the last chapter of tractate Pesachim.

Lucas's critical biography Mario Bava All the Colors of the Dark ( ISBN 0-9633756-1-X ), a vast work thirty-two years in preparation, with a special introduction penned by Martin Scorsese, was published in August 2007 by Video Watchdog.

After completing work on his Bava magnum opus, Lucas ended his decade-long hiatus from fiction with The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula ( 2005, ISBN 0-7432-4354-4 ), a complement to Bram Stoker's Dracula that focuses on the character of Renfield and how the circumstances of his tragic past predisposed him to become the ideal pawn for the Lord of the Undead.

According to the third custom, based upon the Maharshal ( Yam Shel Sh ' lomo, Bava Kamma 7: 37 ), the fast may even be broken at a seudat mitzvah for a siyum celebrating the completion of study of a tractate of Talmud.

Rabbi Moshe Feinstein ( OC 1: 157 ), based on the N ' mukei Yosef ( Bava Batra 53b ), the Ran ( ibid.