Rabbinic Judaism ( or in some Christian traditions, Rabbinism ) ( Hebrew: " Yahadut Rabanit "-יהדות רבנית ) has been the mainstream form of Judaism since the 6th century CE, after the codification of the Talmud.

In rabbinic literature, the Rabbis elaborated and explained the prophecies that were found in the Hebrew Bible along with the oral law and Rabbinic traditions about its meaning.

These are both codifications and redactions of the Jewish oral traditions and major works in Rabbinic Judaism.

Messianic believers cite the cutting off of Paul ’ s hair at Cenchrea because of a vow he had taken ( Acts 18: 18 ), references in passing to him observing the Jewish holidays, and his consistent good standing with his Rabbinic master Gamaliel, to show that he was wholly in continued observance of the laws and traditions of Judaism.

In his commentary, Ibn Ezra adheres to the literal sense of the texts, avoiding Rabbinic allegories and Cabbalistic interpretations, though he remains faithful to the Jewish traditions.

In some Rabbinic traditions Ishmael is said to have had two wives ; one of them named Aisha.

Uriel ( או ּ ר ִ יא ֵ ל " El / God is my light ", Auriel / Oriel ( God is my light ) Standard Hebrew ) is one of the archangels of post-Exilic Rabbinic tradition, and also of certain Christian traditions.

On the one hand, there are those oral traditions of Rabbinic exegesis ( Midrash ) and legal discussion ( Mishnah and Tosfeta ) that eventually began to be written down towards the end of the 2nd century AD.

" However the group reject the traditions of Rabbinic Judaism including the Talmud as inauthentic to Hebrew religion.

The traditions of Rabbinic Judaism used in the knotting of the tzitzit are not followed, so the appearance of Karaite tzitzit can be quite different from that of Rabbanite tzitzit.

Correspondingly, the Aggadah may be seen as those teachings which communicate Rabbinic traditions to the reader, simultaneously expanding their understanding of the text, while strengthening their religious experience and spiritual connection.

Sandalphon figures prominently in the mystical literary traditions of Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity, notably in the Midrash, Talmud, and Kabbalah.

Though he opposed Karaism, the Rabbinic commentator Abraham Ibn Ezra regularly quoted Karaite commentators, particularly Yefet ben ‘ Eli, to the degree that a legend exists among some Karaites that Ibn Ezra was ben ‘ Eli's student.

The Talmud ascribes to the Great Assembly of Ezra a Rabbinic decree imposing further restrictions on men ritually impure from a seminal discharge, including a prohibition on studying Torah and from participating in services.

In Rabbinic Literature, the final disposition of the Ark is disputed.

Conservative Judaism maintains the Rabbinic understanding of Jewish identity: A Jew is someone who was born to a Jewish mother, or who converts to Judaism in accordance with Jewish law and tradition.

Although worship of a trinity is considered to be not different from any other form of idolatry for Jews, it may be an acceptable belief for non-Jews ( according to the ruling of some Rabbinic authorities ).

The likelihood of a 1st century tomb being built to the west of the city is questionable, as according to the late 1st century Rabbinic leader, Akiva ben Joseph, quoted in the Mishnah, tombs should not built to the west of the city, as the wind in Jerusalem generally blows from the west, and would blow the smell of the corpses and their impurity over the city, and the Temple Mount.

Other examples of late Biblical Hebrew include the qetAl pattern form nouns, which would have dated after an Aramaic influence, the frequent use of the relative sh (- ש ) alongside asher ( אשר ), the Ut ending ( ות -), the frequent use of the participle for the present ( which is later developed in Rabbinic Hebrew ), using the prefix conjugation in the future ( vs. the older preterite use ), and terms that appear to specifically fit a Persian / Hellenistic context ( e. g. Shallit ).

In Rabbinic literature the term Epikoros is used, without a specific reference to the Greek philosopher Epicurus, yet it seems apparent that the term was derived from his name.

By contrast, an informal investigation by the High Priest and his cronies ( without witnesses being called ), as told by John, is both historically possible in an emergency on the day before a festival, and accords with the external evidence from Rabbinic sources that Jesus was put to death on the Day of Preparation for the Passover.

Some identify two forms of gematria: the " revealed " form, which is prevalent in many hermeneutic methods found throughout Rabbinic literature, and the " mystical " form, a largely Kabbalistic practice.

Since about the 3rd century CE, the Jewish calendar has used the Anno Mundi epoch ( Latin for “ in the year of the world ,” abbreviated AM or A. M .; Hebrew ), sometimes referred to as the “ Hebrew era .” According to Rabbinic reckoning, the beginning of " year 1 " is not Creation, but about one year before Creation, with the new moon of its first month ( Tishrei ) to be called molad tohu ( the mean new moon of chaos or nothing ).

The addition of the leap month ( Adar II ) is determined by observing in Israel the ripening of barley at a specific stage ( defined by Karaite tradition ) ( called aviv ), rather than using the calculated and fixed calendar of Rabbinic Judaism.

Furthermore, the seasonal drift of the Rabbinic calendar is avoided, resulting in the years affected by the drift starting one month earlier in the Karaite calendar.

Halakhic authorities may disagree on which laws fall into which categories or the circumstances ( if any ) under which prior Rabbinic rulings can be re-examined by contemporary rabbis, but all halakhic Jews hold that both categories exist and that the first category is immutable, with exceptions only for life-saving and similar emergency circumstances.

A second classical distinction is between the Written Torah ( laws written in the Hebrew Bible, specifically its first five books ), and Oral Law, laws believed transmitted orally prior to compilation in texts such as the Mishnah, Talmud, and Rabbinic codes.

Thus, although there is an esoteric tradition in Judaism ( Kabbalah ), Rabbinic scholar Max Kadushin has characterized normative Judaism as " normal mysticism ", because it involves everyday personal experiences of God through ways or modes that are common to all Jews.

In the Mishnah, a core text of Rabbinic Judaism, acceptance of the Divine origins of this covenant is considered an essential aspect of Judaism and those who reject the Covenant forfeit their share in the World to Come.

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 ).

Based on the Biblical injunction against cooking a kid in its mother's milk, this rule is mostly derived from the Oral Torah, the Talmud and Rabbinic law.

Chicken and other kosher birds are considered the same as meat under the laws of kashrut, but the prohibition is Rabbinic, not Biblical.

Rabbinic Judaism does not believe that the preceding verses refer to what is nowadays described as a homosexual inclination, nor do these verses refer to lesbian sexual activity.

Judeo-Christian ( also Abrahamism ) is a term used in a historical sense to refer to the connections between the precursors of Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism in the Second Temple period, especially in the United States.

Others are critical of Neusner's reading and interpretations of Rabbinic texts, finding that his account is forced and inaccurate ( e. g., Cohen, Evans, Maccoby, Poirier and in detail, Zuesse ).

Kabbalah is considered by its followers as a necessary part of the study of Torah – the study of Torah ( the Tanakh and Rabbinic literature ) being an inherent duty of observant Jews .< ref >

In Talmudic literature, there is evidence that this is the first book of the Tanakh taught in the Rabbinic system of education in Talmudic times.

It chiefly referred to his Rabbinic writings.

The Shekinah is referred to as manifest in the Tabernacle and the Temple in Jerusalem throughout Rabbinic literature.

Immediately after this Akivian " solution " to the puzzle of thrones referred to in Song of Songs and the two thrones spoken of in Daniel, Chapter Seven, the text presents Akiva as being pressured — and then acquiescing to — a domesticated version of this twoness theme for the single Jewish God which would be acceptable to Rabbinic officialdom.

Conservative Judaism takes the position that the Mechitza referred to in Talmud Tractate Sukkah applied only to the festival of Sukkah in the Temple and that its use to separate men and women for synagogue worship and other occasions represents a custom rather than a requirement of core Jewish law, and is subject to contemporary Rabbinic re-examination.

In Rabbinic literature, " secular knowledge " is usually referred to as chokhmah חכמה.

According to Rabbinic interpretation, Huldah and Deborah were the principal professed prophetesses in the Nevi ' im ( Prophets ) portion of the Hebrew Bible, although other women were referred to as prophetesses.