Five additional prohibitions are traditionally observed, as detailed in the Jewish oral tradition ( Mishnah tractate Yoma 8: 1 )

According to Talmud tractate Yoma, in the absence of a Temple, Jews are obligated to study the High Priest ’ s ritual on Yom Kippur, and this study helps achieve atonement for those who are unable to benefit from its actual performance.

The difficulties Hillel had to overcome to gain admittance to the school of Sh ' maya and Abtalion, and the hardships he suffered while pursuing his aim, are told in a touching passage ( Talmud, tractate Yoma 35b ), the ultimate purpose of which is to show that poverty cannot be considered as an obstacle to the study of Torah.

* Rabbi Meir is well known as a Tosafist and in particular, authored the Tosafot commentary of the Talmudic tractate Yoma ; he is quoted in the Tosafot on various other tractates.

According to tractate Yoma, in the Talmud, Tiras is the ancestor of Persia.

According to tractate Yoma, in the Talmud, Gomer is identified as the ancestor of the Gomermians, modern Germans.

On Yom Kippur additional prohibitions are observed similar to the fast of Tisha B ' Av, as detailed in the Jewish oral tradition ( Mishnah tractate Yoma 8: 1 ) because the Torah stipulates that ועניתם את נפשתיכם " and you shall afflict your souls " and the Talmud therefore defines self-imposed " affliction " during Yom Kippur only, as follows:

( Talmud tractate Megillah 15a ).

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

The Talmud ( tractate Berachoth 26b ) gives two reasons why there are three basic prayers:

The Babylonian Talmud, tractate Sanhedrin, contains a long discussion of the events leading to the coming of the Messiah, for example:

Both the Mishnah and Talmud contain little serious biographical studies of the people discussed therein, and the same tractate will conflate the points of view of many different people.

These families are from the tribe of Levi ( Levites ) and in twenty-four instances are called by scripture as such ( Jerusalem Talmud to Mishnaic tractate Maaser Sheini p. 31a ).

( It is permitted to study the laws of mourning, as well as that material which may be studied on Tisha B ' Av, including Job, Lamentations, portions of Jeremiah and the third chapter of Talmud tractate Moed Katan.

The Talmud ( tractate Sabb.

In a similar vein, Rabbi Akiva ( ca. 50 – ca. 135CE ), is said to have learned a new law from every et ( את ) in the Torah ( Talmud, tractate Pesachim 22b ); the word et is meaningless by itself, and serves only to mark the direct object.

* The Jerusalem Talmud covers all the tractates of Zeraim, while the Babylonian Talmud covers only tractate Berachot.

In contrast, the Talmud ( tractate Berachoth 61b ) refers to the spleen as the organ of laughter while possibly suggesting a link with the humoral view of the organ.

The group of people who hold a Passover Seder together is referred to in the Talmud ( tractate Pesachim ) as a chavurah ( group ).

Also, the Babylonian Talmud teaches that " Rabbi Yochanan and Rabbi Eleazar both explain that as long as the Temple stood, the altar atoned for Israel, but now, one's table atones the poor are invited as guests " ( Talmud, tractate Berachoth 55a ).

The definition of Hillel the Elder in his interview with a would-be convert ( Talmud, tractate Shabbat 31a ), embodies in the golden rule the one fundamental article of faith.

) states that a standard copy of the Hebrew Bible was kept in the court of the Temple in Jerusalem for the benefit of copyists ; there were paid correctors of Biblical books among the officers of the Temple ( Talmud, tractate Ketubot 106a ).

No single tractate of the key Rabbinic texts, the Mishnah and the Talmud, is devoted to theological issues ; these texts are concerned primarily with interpretations of Jewish law, and anecdotes about the sages and their values.

The Talmud ( tractate Sanhedrin ) identifies two classes of rabbinical courts called Sanhedrin, a Great Sanhedrin ( בית דין הגדול ) and a Lesser Sanhedrin ( בית דין הקטן ).

He accepted a rabbinical position in 1553 as Landesrabbiner of Moravia at Mikulov ( Nikolsburg ), directing community affairs but also determining which tractate of the Talmud was to be studied in the communities in that province.

The first book of the Talmud, tractate Brachot, opens with a discussion of when exactly the Shema needs to be recited.

Unless otherwise noted, references are to the Babylonian Talmud ; Jerusalem Talmud or Yerushalmi preceding the name of a Talmudic tractate means it is from the Jerusalem Talmud.

It states in tractate Sanhedrin " The Jews are destined to eat fill in the days of the Messiah ", " The world was created only ... for the sake of the Messiah.

) The Sanhedrin tractate in the Talmud states that she was killed by King David's general Abishai, the son of Zeruiah.

The Conservative position is that the Talmud states that in exceptional cases rabbis have the right to uproot Biblical prohibitions for a variety of reasons ; it gives examples of how this was done in practice, e. g. Talmud Bavli, tractate Yevamot 89a-90b, and tractate Nazir 43a.

In addition, the Talmud ( in tractate Bava Batra 14b & Gitten 54b ) states that Moses used gevil for the Torah scroll he placed into the Holy Ark.

The Oral Torah is the primary guide for Jews to abide by these terms, as expressed in tractate Gittin 60b, " the Holy One, Blessed be He, did not make His covenant with Israel except by virtue of the Oral Law " to help them learn how to live a holy life, and to bring holiness, peace and love into the world and into every part of life, so that life may be elevated to a high level of kedushah, originally through study and practice of the Torah, and since the destruction of the Second Temple, through prayer as expressed in tractate Sotah 49a " Since the destruction of the Temple, every day is more cursed than the preceding one ; and the existence of the world is assured only by the kedusha ... and the words spoken after the study of Torah.

His criticism is contained in the ninth tractate of the second of the Enneads.

The Torah's commandment to love God " with all your heart, with all your soul and with all your might " ( Deuteronomy 6: 5 ) is taken by the Mishnah ( a central text of the Jewish oral law ) to refer to good deeds, willingness to sacrifice one's life rather than commit certain serious transgressions, willingness to sacrifice all of one's possessions, and being grateful to the Lord despite adversity ( tractate Berachoth 9: 5 ).

( 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.

Perhaps the most famous is his introduction to the tenth chapter of tractate Sanhedrin where he enumerates the thirteen fundamental beliefs of Judaism.

Each tractate is introduced with an overview of its contents, including historical and legal background material, and each Mishnah is prefaced by a thematic introduction.

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.

Each tractate is divided into chapters ( perakim ; singular: perek ), 517 in total, that are both numbered according to the Hebrew alphabet and given names, usually using the first one or two words in the first mishnah.

* In both Talmuds, only one tractate of Tehorot ( ritual purity laws ) is examined, that of the menstrual laws, Niddah.

The origins of European engagement in marriage practice is found in the Jewish law ( Torah ), first exemplified by Abraham, and outlined in the last Talmudic tractate of the Nashim ( Women ) order, where marriage consists of two separate acts, called erusin ( or kiddushin, meaning sanctification

Brief mention of Esther is made in tractate Chullin ( Bavli Chullin 139b ) and idolatry relating to worship of Haman is discussed in tractate Sanhedrin ( Sanhedrin 61b ).