According to some Jewish traditions ( e. g., B. Talmud Nedarim 32b ; Genesis Rabbah 46: 7 ; Genesis Rabbah 56: 10 ; Leviticus Rabbah 25: 6 ; Numbers Rabbah 4: 8.

Many rabbinic sources state that repentance is of paramount importance to the existence of this world, so that it was one of the seven provisions which God made before the Creation ( Talmud Bavli, tractates Pesahim 54a ; Nedarim 39b ; Midrash Genesis Rabbah 1 ).

The Talmud also enumerates six occasions in which Akiva gained his wealth ( Nedarim, 50a – b ).

According to the Talmud, repentance was among the first things God created ; even before God created the physical universe ( Nedarim 39b ).

Ashkenazi designed the Shittah to cover the whole Talmud ; but only the following tracts were interpreted: Bezah, Baba Kamma, Baba Batra, Baba Metzia, Ketubot, Nedarim, Nazir, Sotah, and the order of Kodashim ( excepting Hullin ) — the last-mentioned in the Romm edition of the Talmud.

The custom of using the Divine Name in greeting one's fellow-man ( Rt-2. 4 ) formulated by him and his bet din (" court law ") received the approval of even the heavenly bet din ( Babylonian Talmud Makkot 23b ; Yerushalmi Talmud Ber.

The numbering was first made by Rabbi Simlai in Talmud Makkot 23b.

The Babylonian Talmud ( Megillah 23b ) derives the requirement of a minyan of ten for Kiddush Hashem and Devarim she-Bikdusha, " matters of sanctity ", by combining three scriptural verses using the rule of:

The Talmud says that although courts capable of executing sinners no longer exist, the prescribed penalties continue to be applied by Providence.

In one case she paskinned din on " klaustra " a rare Greek word referring to an object, used in the Talmud, unfortunately Rabbi Yehudah Hanassi did not believe women could be credited with paskining din, as it says ' do not speak too much to women ' ( Tannah Rabbi Jesse the Galilean ), and therefore credited the law to Rabbi Joshua who may have been her father.

Though there is a popular myth that one must be a 40 year old Jewish man, and learned in the Talmud before one is allowed to delve into Kabbalah, Chaim Vital says exactly the opposite in his introduction to Eitz Chaim.

The Talmud ( Minachot 30a ) says that the last eight verses of the Torah that discuss the death and burial of Moses could not have been written by Moses, as writing it would have been a lie, and that they were written after his death by Joshua.

The Talmud says that God dictated four books of the Torah, but that Moses wrote Deuteronomy in his own words ( Talmud Bavli, Meg.

The Talmud holds it was for rebelling against Moses ( Eruvin 63b ) and the Midrash ( Vayikra Raba ) says the only hint we have is the commandment not to drink wine given to Aaron immediately after their death-an indication that they were drunk.

In the Talmud and the Zohar the reference to Zelophehad having " died in his own sin " is used to equate him with the man executed for gathering sticks on the Sabbath, but Sifri Zuta says that it cannot be known if he was.

The Talmud says Mordecai prophesied in the second year of Darius.

According to the Talmud, manna was found near the homes of those with strong belief in God, and far from the homes of those with doubts ; indeed, one classical midrash says that manna was intangible to Gentiles, as it would inevitably slip from their hands.

Bahya says in the introduction to Duties of the Heart that he wished to fill a great need in Jewish literature ; he felt that neither the rabbis of the Talmud nor subsequent rabbis adequately brought all the ethical teachings of Judaism into a coherent system.

The Talmud often says of the interpretations of a baraita: " The Biblical passage should be merely a support.

The New Testament comparison has a parallel in the Talmud, which says that " the spirit of God hovered over the face of the waters like a dove ", but in Jewish tradition the olive branch is not used as a peace symbol and neither the Hebrew Bible nor the New Testament mention the dove or the olive in connection with peace.

The Talmud says " the name of God is ' Peace '" ( Pereq ha-Shalom, Shab.

The Talmud ( Megillah 13b ) says that Rachel revealed to Leah the secret signs which she and Jacob had devised to identify the veiled bride, because they both suspected Laban would pull such a trick.

The Talmud says almost nothing in regard to the personal relations of the exilarchs to the royal court.

According to the Talmud a father is commanded not to marry his daughter to anyone until she grows up and says ' I want this one '.

The Talmud ( Arakhin 3a ) relates that women are required to recite zimmun of three participants, and Berakhot 45 says that women may recite the zimmun.

The Talmud says that at least 36 Tzadikim Nistarim — anonymous tzadikim — are living among us in all times ; they are anonymous, and it is for their sake alone that the world is not destroyed.

The Talmud says, " When the month of Av begins, we Jews reduce our joy.

Devora Steinmetz, Assistant Professor of Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, says that the story of Jacob and Laban also resonates with the covenant with Abraham, more frequently interpreted as applying to the Exodus: " your seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them and they shall afflict them ....

Talmud of Jmmanuel by Judas Ischarioth ; says on its English version title page, " The Clear Translation in English " " Translation of the Aramaic scrolls written by Judas Iscariot,

( Note: The Talmud quoted by Rashi says that his wives built the temples and he is considered responsible for not stopping them.

But instead of blaming outside forces, the Talmud says that the cause of the destruction of the Second Temple was the senseless hatred and ill will displayed between Jews.

The Talmud teaches, " Who is the penitent whose repentance ascends until the Throne of Glory?

The Talmud in Sukkah 28a tells that while he was absorbed in studying Torah, if a bird flew over his head it would be burnt ( possibly a metaphor meant to say that any scholar who wished to differ in opinion with him was incapable of such ; Rashi suggests that the Ministering Angels HaShareis were responsible because they longed to hear his words of Torah.

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

The whole Talmud consists of 63 tractates, and in standard print is over 6, 200 pages long.

The Mishnah's topical organization thus became the framework of the Talmud as a whole.

Following Ambrosius Frobenius's publication of most of the Talmud in installments in Basel, Immanuel Benveniste published the whole Talmud in installments in Amsterdam 1644-1648, Though according to Raphael Rabbinovicz the Benveniste Talmud may have been based on the Lublin Talmud and included many of the censors ' errors.

There have been critical editions of particular tractates ( e. g. Henry Malter's edition of Ta ' anit ), but there is no modern critical edition of the whole Talmud.

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.

Some congregations believe that adherence to the Oral Law, as encompassed by the Talmud, is against Messianic beliefs, since the Talmud was not written until after the whole of the affirmed canon ( begun 70 CE, completed approx 500 CE ).

Nahmanides ' wrote glosses on the whole Talmud, made compendiums of parts of Jewish law, after the model of Isaac Alfasi.

The Hebrew day of his acquittal and release, 19 Kislev, 5559 on the Hebrew calendar, is celebrated annually by Chabad Hasidim, who hold a festive meal and make communal pledges to learn the whole of the Talmud ; this practice is known as " Chalukas Ha ' Shas ".

Anan rejected the admeasurements instituted by the rabbis ( shi ' urim ); and instead of any permissible minimum for prohibited things — which the Talmud admits, as for instance shishim, one part in sixty, or ke-zait, " the size of an olive ," etc .— he insisted that even the smallest atom of anything prohibited, mingling with an infinitely large quantity of a thing permitted, was sufficient to render the whole of the latter prohibited.

Moses of Évreux, one of the most prolific tosafists, furnished glosses to the whole Talmud ; they form a distinct group known as the Tosafot of Évreux.

The Cave of Treasures is a Syriac work containing many of the same legends ; indeed, as Malan remarks, a whole body of stories expanding upon the Old Testament is found in the Talmud, in the Koran, and in other late antique texts.

It was thought that the compilers of the Jerusalem Talmud lacked the time to produce a work of the quality they had intended, and that this is the reason why the Gemara do not comment upon the whole Mishnah.

Kinnim is considered to be one of the most difficult tractate in the whole Talmud, largely because the mishnayot involve rather elaborate counting methods and practices.

He not only wrote answers to hundreds of learned questions — which responsa are still partially preserved in the collections " Temim De ' im ", " Orot Hayyim ", and " Shibbale ha-Leket " — but he also wrote a commentary on the whole Talmud and compiled several compendiums of rabbinical law.

Most biblical scholars now agree that the intricate details of the whole offering, particularly the types and number of animals on occasion of various feast days, given by the Torah, were of a late origin, as were the intricate directions given in the Talmud.

The whole character of the " Sheiltot " is Palestinian ; and, as such, they are quite distinct from the contemporary synopses of Yehudai Gaon and Simeon Kayyara, which confine themselves to important decisions of the Talmud, with the omission of all discussions, and with the addition of short elucidations of words.