Beruryah however was actually remembered with great respect in the Talmud where she is lauded to have been reputed as such a genius that she studied “ three hundred Halachot from three hundred sages in just one day ” ( Pesachim 62b ).

The Talmud ( Pesachim 35a.

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

The Shekinah manifests itself as a form of joy, connected with prophecy and creativity: Talmud Pesachim 117a ) The Talmud also reports that " The Shekinah does not rest amidst laziness, nor amidst laughter, nor amidst lightheadedness, nor amidst idle conversation.

Some who reject infallibility cite the Talmud, Pesachim 94b:

Rashi and the Tosafot on Talmud Bavli Pesachim 46a are both of the opinion that one is required to travel the distance of 4 mil to pray with a minyan.

In the Babylonian Talmud the treatises of the order Mo ' ed are arranged as follows: Shabbat, ' Erubin, Pesachim, Beitzah, Hagigah, Mo ' ed Katan, Rosh ha-Shanah, Ta ' anit, Yoma, Sukkah, Sheqalim, Megillah ; while the sequence in the Jerusalem Talmud is Shabbat, Eruvin, Pesachim, Yoma, Sheqalim, Sukkah, Rosh ha-Shanah, Beitzah, Ta ' anit, Megillah, Hagigah, Mo ' ed ' Katan.

It was even insufficient to reduce an idol to powder and scatter it to the winds, since it would fall to earth and become a fertilizer ; but the image must be sunk in the Dead Sea, whence it could never emerge ( Talmud Avodah Zarah 3. 3 ); nor might the wood of the " asherah " be used for purposes of healing ( Talmud Pesachim 25a ).

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.

" Rabbeinu Asher, in his comprehensive halakhic commentary on the Babylonian Talmud ( Pesachim 10: 19 ), as well as Rabbeinu Aharon HaKohein in his Orchot Chayyim ( p. 76, § 13 ), quote the Jerusalem Talmud ( Pesachim 68a ) as an additional source for the fast.

The Talmud ( Tractate Pesachim ) uses the term chavurah to identify the group of people registered for a single Passover sacrifice, and who held a Seder together, in the days of the Temple in Jerusalem.

The Talmud ( Pesachim 50 ) rules that a valid minhag accepted by previous generations of a family or community is binding upon all later generations.

( See Tosafot on Talmud Pesachim 51a ; Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Hilchot Issurei Biah ; Be ' er Heitev, Orach Chaim 182 in Hilchot Birkat Ha ' mazon, Orach Chaim 653 in Hilchot Lulav, Orach Chaim 551: 4 in Hilchot Tisha B ' av.

( Babylonian Talmud tractate Pesachim 113b ; Tosafot Pesachim 114a s. v.

Repentance and the Day of Atonement only absolve one from sins committed against God ; from sins against another person they absolve only when restitution has been made and the pardon of the offended party has been obtained ( Talmud Yoma 87a ; Mishneh Torah Teshuva2: 9 ).

The Babylonian Talmud claims that Hezekiah, the 14th king of Judah, composed the book.

Orthodox Judaism, as it exists today, is an outgrowth that claims to extend from the time of Moses, to the time of the Mishnah and Talmud, through the development of oral law and rabbinic literature, until the present time.

Modern genetics has suggested some truth to both the claims of the Samaritans and the mainstream Jewish accounts in the Talmud.

One opinion in the Talmud claims, with support from Biblical verses, that the concept for each of the three services was founded respectively by each of the three biblical patriarchs.

* The Talmud claims that " deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.

Modern genetics has suggested some truth to both the claims of the Samaritans and Jewish accounts in the Talmud.

The Jerusalem Talmud ( Ta ' anit 2: 1 ) states explicitly: " if a man claims to be God, he is a liar.

Donin claims this has become the case since the Jews only cling to the Talmud, something that has become an alius lex ( other law ) to them.

Other secondary claims that were held by Donin that emerged at the trial were: That the Talmud encourages negative treatment of Christians in both business and social settings, and that the Talmud is rampant with denigrating comments regarding Jesus and Mary.

A statement by Rabbi Simlai in the Talmud claims that " The Torah begins with chesed and ends with chesed.

He was reading from the Talmud with a group of men from his congregation.

But, from our reading of the Western Talmud, we Urielites believe that the Forerunner, knowing this situation would arise, made reference to and provision for divorce.

The Steinsaltz editions of the Talmud include translation from the original Aramaic and a comprehensive commentary.

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.

However, the Talmud states that in exceptional cases, the Sages had the authority to " uproot matters from the Torah " in certain cases.

Halakhot Gedolot (" Great Law Book "), by R. Simeon Kayyara, published two generations later, contains extensive additional material, mainly from Responsa and Monographs of the Geonim, and is presented in a form that is closer to the original Talmud language and structure.

This work traces the Halakha from the Torah text and the Talmud through the Rishonim, with the Hilchot of Alfasi as its starting point.

The Beit Yosef is a huge commentary on the Tur in which Rabbi Karo traces the development of each law from the Talmud through later rabbinical literature ( examining thirty-two authorities, beginning with the Talmud and ending with the works of Rabbi Israel Isserlein ).

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.

The Babylonian Talmud was compiled from discussions in the houses of study by the scholars Ravina I, Ravina II, and Rav Ashi by 500 CE, although it continued to be edited later.

Meanwhile, in the United States, wealthy Reform Jews helped European scholars, who were Orthodox in practice but critical ( and skeptical ) in their study of the Bible and Talmud, to establish a seminary to train rabbis for immigrants from Eastern Europe.

The Talmud tells many stories about the Messiah, some of which represent famous Talmudic rabbis as receiving personal visitations from Elijah the Prophet and the Messiah.

According to the Talmud, the Midrash, and the Kabbalistic work, the Zohar, the ' deadline ' by which the Messiah must appear is 6000 years from creation.

The Kaddish d ' Rabbanan is used after any part of the service that includes extracts from the Mishnah or the Talmud, as its original purpose was to close a study session.

Ginzberg began teaching Talmud at the Jewish Theological Seminary from its reorganization in 1902 until his death in 1953.

Ginzberg was the author of a number of scholarly Jewish works, including a commentary on Talmud Yerushalmi ( the Jerusalem Talmud ) and his six-volume ( plus a one-volume index ) The Legends of the Jews, ( 1909 ) which combined hundreds of legends and parables from a lifetime of midrash research.

Legislation against the Talmud in European courts resulted from concerns that its circulation would weaken Christians ' faith and threaten the Christian basis of society, the preservation of which was the monarch's duty.

It was redacted 220 CE by Rabbi Yehudah haNasi when, according to the Talmud, the persecution of the Jews and the passage of time raised the possibility that the details of the oral traditions dating from Pharisaic times ( 536 BCE – 70 CE ) would be forgotten.

He among others fully institutionlized the teaching of Mishnah and Talmud to girls, from an autobiography on him by Rabbi Mayor Twersky called " A Glimpse of the Rav " in R. Menachem Genack ed., Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik: Man of Halacha, Man of Faith, page 113: