Yet, sketchy biographies of the Mishnaic sages can often be constructed with historical detail from Talmudic and Midrashic sources.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

However, the term often refers specifically to literature from the Talmudic era, as opposed to medieval and modern rabbinic writing, and thus corresponds with the Hebrew term Sifrut Hazal ( ספרות חז " ל ; " Literature our sages blessed memory ," where Hazal normally refers only to the sages of the Talmudic era ).

The Talmudic sages teach that Isaac was thirty-seven, likely based on the next biblical story, which is of Sarah's death at 127, being 90 when Isaac was born.

Christiani argued, based upon several aggadic passages, that the Pharisee sages believed that the Messiah had lived during the Talmudic period, and that they ostensibly believed that the Messiah was therefore Jesus.

Perhaps in our generation the counsel of our Talmudic sages may seem superfluous, for today the story of our enslavement in Egypt is kept alive not only by ritualistic symbolism, but even more so by tragic realism.

Nevertheless, these works are the basic " proof-text " cross-referenced by the Talmudic sages in their analysis and interpretation of the Mishna ; See Gemara.

Christiani argued, based upon several aggadic passages, that the Pharisee sages believed that the Messiah had lived during the Talmudic period, and that they ostensibly believed that the Messiah was therefore Jesus.

One mention of the merkabah in the Talmud notes the importance of the passage: " A great issue — the account of the merkavah ; a small issue — the discussions of Abaye and Rava Talmudic sages.

Graetz claims, on the basis of one or two quotations from certain Talmudic sages, that they " were wont to do " something-despite sources explicitly to the contrary-and goes on to develop these suppositions into theories affecting the entire Torah tradition.

" Abaja "), deals with the various titles given to the Talmudic sages, as " Rabban ," " Rabbi ," " Rab ," and " Mar ," and explains why some sages are simply mentioned by their names, without the addition of any titles.

The extant writings of the Jewish sages are contained in the books of Job, Proverbs, Psalms, Ben-Sira, Tobit, Ecclesiastes, Wisdom of Solomon, 4th Maccabees, to which may be added the first chapter of Pirke Aboth ( a Talmudic tract giving, probably, pre-Christian material ).

Talmudic sages have compared a brit to a Korban ( Temple offering ), and eating at a seudat brit milah to eating a Temple offering.

He went to a yeshiva in Piatra Neamţ at age ten and at age thirteen studied with one of the major Talmudic scholars, Rabbi Joseph Saul Nathanson of Lemberg .< ref >

* Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi or Judah haNasi, Talmudic scholar ( according to Jewish tradition, he was born the same day Rabbi Akiva died a martyr's death )

About the 3rd century CE, the city was first mentioned in Talmudic literature, as a Jewish fishing village and the home of Rabbi Avdimi and other Jewish scholars.

*" The ROSH ", Rabbi Asher ben Jehiel ( 1250-1328 ) a prominent Talmudic scholar

Its first appearance is the manuscript of the Rosh Hashana liturgy by the Talmudic sage Rav ( Rabbi Abba Arikha, died 247 ), who lived in Babylonia ( Persia ).

He is a respected Talmudic scholar, mystic, and brother-in-law of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov ( founder of the Hasidic movement ).

In the Talmudic and post-Talmudic periods the tefillin were worn by rabbis and scholars all day, and a special tallit was worn at prayer ; hence they put on the tefillin before the tallit, as appears in the order given in " Seder Rabbi Amram Gaon " ( p. 2a ) and in the Zohar.

Rabbi Yehudai Gaon of Sura ( 760 CE ), author of the Halakot Pesukot, forbade the study of the Nedarim, the Talmudic treatise on oaths.

Rabbi Jacob Emden ( 1697 – 1776 ) was Talmudic scholar and leading opponent of the Sabbatians.

The elite group of holy disciples, the " Chevraya Kaddisha " (" Holy Society "), included Rabbi Aharon of Karlin, Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Vitebsk, the brothers Rabbi Elimelech of Lizhensk and Rabbi Zusha of Hanipol, the brothers Rabbi Shmelka ( later Chief Rabbi of Nikolsburg ) and Rabbi Pinchas Horowitz ( later Chief Rabbi of Frankfurt-am-Main and author of profound Talmudic commentaries ), and Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi ( author of the Tanya, and by instructions of his master, author of an updated version of the Shulchan Aruch Code of Jewish Law for the new movement ).

Loewe, Löwe, or Levai, ( c. 1520 – 17 September 1609 ) widely known to scholars of Judaism as the Maharal of Prague, or simply The MaHaRaL, the Hebrew acronym of " Moreinu ha-Rav Loew ," (" Our Teacher, Rabbi Loew ") was an important Talmudic scholar, Jewish mystic, and philosopher who, for most of his life, served as a leading rabbi in the cities of Mikulov in Moravia and Prague in Bohemia.

Teitelbaum's works include collections of responsa and novelae ( scholarly contributions to Talmudic debates ) entitled Divrei Yoel and Al HaGeulah V ' Al HaTemurah this was written with the help of the late Rabbi N. Y. Meisels.

He would guide Rabbi Avraham in Talmudic scholarship, and the Malach would teach him Hasidic philosophy.

Yemenite Jews following the interpretation of Rabbi Salomon Isaacides, Rashi of Talmūd, believe fenugreek, which they call hilbeh, hilba, helba, or halba ( חילבה ) is the Talmudic Rubia ( רוביא ).

* Rabbi Akiva, Talmudic Sage

Admirable as is the systematization of the Halakhah by Akiva, his hermeneutics and halakhic exegesis — which form the foundation of all Talmudic learning — surpassed it.

The name Aish HaTorah, literally " Fire the Torah ", was inspired by the Talmudic story of Rabbi Akiva, the once illiterate 40-year-old shepherd who subsequently became the most famous sage of the Mishnah.

" Jerusalem of Gold " is a reference to a special piece of jewelry mentioned in a famous Talmudic legend about Rabbi Akiva ; " To all your songs, I am a lyre " is a quote from a poem by Rabbi Yehuda Halevi.

Destined for the rabbinate, he received his Talmudic education from Jacob of Lissa and Rabbi Akiva Eiger of Posen.

In the annals of the Babylonian schools the year of his arrival is recorded as the starting-point in the chronology of the Talmudic age.

In Judaism, Heaven is sometimes described as a place where God debates Talmudic law with the angels, and where Jews spend eternity studying the Written and Oral Torah.

The Talmudic interpretation is that the Aramaic word is derived from the root-word פק " ר ( PKR ; lit.

Within Talmudic literature, Jewish law is divided into the six orders of the Mishnah, which are categories by proximate subject matter: Zeraim (" Seeds ") for agricultural laws and prayer, Moed (" Festival "), for the Sabbath and the Festivals, Nashim (" Women "), dealing primarily with marriage and divorce, Nezikin (" Damages "), for civil and criminal law, Kodashim (" Holy things "), for sacrifices and the dietary laws, and Tohorot (" Purities ") for ritual purity.

This work encompasses the full range of Talmudic law ; it is organized and reformulated in a logical system — in 14 books, 83 sections and 1000 chapters — with each Halakha stated clearly.

The term Ruach HaKodesh ( Holy Spirit ) is found frequently in Talmudic and Midrashic literature.

Here is the mystery of Talmudic Judaism: the alien and remote conviction that the intellect is an instrument not of unbelief and desacralization but of sanctification.

In the Talmudic era the title mashiach or מלך המשיח, ( in the Tiberian vocalization pronounced ), literally meaning " the anointed King ", is referred to the human Jewish leader and king who will redeem Israel in the end of days and who will usher in a messianic era of peace and prosperity for both the living and the deceased.

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.

In some words in Hebrew there is a choice of whether to use a mater lectionis or not, and in modern printed texts matres lectionis are sometimes used even for short vowels, which is considered to be grammatically incorrect, though instances are found as far back as Talmudic times.

She is mentioned at least four times in the Talmudic discourse regarding her law decrees first Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 10a then in Tosefta Pesahim 62b in Babylonian Talmud Eruvin 53b – 54a and Babylonian Talmud Avodah Zarah 18b.

However, other Talmudic commentaries ( Tosafot ) say that such liquids only produce a leavening reaction within flour if they themselves have had water added to them and otherwise the dough they produce is completely permissible for consumption during Passover, whether or not made according to the laws applying to matzot.

Orthodox Judaism is the approach to religious Judaism which adheres to the interpretation and application of the laws and ethics of the Torah as legislated in the Talmudic texts by the Sanhedrin (" Oral Torah ") and subsequently developed and applied by the later authorities known as the Gaonim, Rishonim, and Acharonim.

Beth Medrash Govoha, the Haredi yeshiva in Lakewood, New Jersey is the largest Talmudic academy in the United States, with a student body of over 5, 000 students.

Drawing on the breadth of Midrashic, Talmudic and Aggadic literature ( including literature that is no longer extant ), as well as his knowledge of grammar, halakhah, and how things work, Rashi clarifies the " simple " meaning of the text so that a bright child of five could understand it.

Another important work is the Sefer ha-Mafteaḥ ( Book of the Key ) by Nissim Gaon, which contains a preface explaining the different forms of Talmudic argumentation and then explains abbreviated passages in the Talmud by cross-referring to parallel passages where the same thought is expressed in full.