Judaism addresses the end times in the Book of Daniel and numerous other prophetic passages in the Hebrew scriptures, and also in the Talmud, particularly Tractate Avodah Zarah.

In the Talmud ( Tractate Yoma 29a ), Esther is compared to the " morning star ", and is considered the subject of Psalm 22, because its introduction is a " song for the morning star ".

In the Talmud ( Tractate Sanhedrin 38b ), Adam was initially created as a golem ( גולם ) when his dust was " kneaded into a shapeless husk.

According to the Talmud ( Tractate Makot ), there are 613 mitzvot (" commandments ") in the Torah ; in Hebrew these are known as the Taryag mitzvot תרי " ג מצוות.

The Noahide laws are derived in the Talmud ( Tractate Sanhedrin 57a ), and are listed here:

The Roman-Jewish historian Flavius Josephus states that three of the seven lamps were allowed to burn during the day also ; however, according to the Talmud ( Rashi, Tractate Shabbat 22b ), only the center lamp was left burning all day, into which as much oil was put as into the others.

This miracle according to the Talmud ( Tractate Menahot 86b ) was taken as a sign that the Shechinah rested over Israel.

) according the Talmud Tractate ( Yoma 39a ), " Our Rabbis taught: During the last forty years before the destruction of the Temple ( that is to say around 30ad ) the lot the Lord ’ did not come up in the right ... hand ; nor did the crimson-coloured strap become white ; nor did the westernmost light shine "

A version of the legend is found in the Tractate Megillah of the Babylonian Talmud:

The first page of the Vilna Shas | Vilna Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a.

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.

It is discussed in the Talmud, Tractate Berachot, Second Part.

The Talmud, in Tractate Sukkah 48a, describes Shemini Atzeret with the words " a holiday in its own right " (, regel bifnei atzmo ) with respect to six specific halakhic ( Jewish law ) issues.

The Talmud ( Tractate Kiddushin 30a ) defines the objective of Torah study: " That the words of Torah shall be clear in your mouth so that if someone asks you something, you shall need not hesitate and then tell it to him, rather you shall tell it to him immediately.

Samson's strength was divinely derived ( Talmud, Tractate Sotah 10a ).

( Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Avodah Zarah 3a, 4b ).

( Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Niddah 61b and Tractate Shabbat 151b ).

The Talmud states that humility is one of the characteristic traits of the Jewish people ( Talmud, Tractate Yevamot 79a ).

In the Babylonian Talmud, Rabbi Elazar Bar Tzadok connected the injunction at Micah 6: 8 to " walk humbly ( hatzne ' a leches ) with your God " as referring to modesty and discretion in dress and in behavior ( Tractate Sukkah 49b ).

The first page of the Vilna Edition of the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Berachot, folio 2a.

According Babylonian Talmud Tractate Yoma, the Kodesh Hakodashim is located in the center North-South but significantly to the West from an East-West perspective, with all the major courtyards and functional areas lying to its east.

( For the first cycle, there were only 2, 702 pages of Talmud on the schedule ; later Gedolei Yisrael increased it to 2, 711, incorporating Tractate Shekalim, taken from the Jerusalem Talmud.

( It should be noted that in the account given of the same events, in rabbinic sources ( b. Talmud Shabbat 99a ; Exodus Rabbah 41 ) and in the Qur ' an, Aaron is not the idol-maker and upon Moses ' return begged his pardon as he had felt mortally threatened by the Israelites ( Quran 7: 142-152 ).

( Talmud Shabbat 127a ).

Although most Shabbat laws are restrictive, the fourth of the Ten Commandments in Exodus is taken by the Talmud to allude to the positive commandments of the Shabbat.

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.

" Talmud Berachot 6a ), and personal need (" The Shekhinah dwells over the headside of the sick man's bed " Talmud Shabbat 12b ; " Wheresoever they were exiled, the Shekhinah went with them.

A cryptic story in the Babylonian Talmud states that " On the eve of every Shabbat, Judah HaNasi's pupils, Rab Hanina and Rab Hoshaiah, who devoted themselves especially to cosmogony, used to create a delicious calf by means of the Sefer Yetzirah, and ate it on the Sabbath.

10b ), ( Judges 6: 24 ); therefore, one is not permitted to greet another with the word shalom in unholy places such as a bathroom ( Talmud, Shabbat, 10b ).

" ( Talmud, tracate Shabbat 31a ; Midrash Avot de Rabbi Natan.

A person should show self-respect in regard to both his body, " honoring it as the image of God " ( Hillel: Midrash Leviticus Rabbah 34 ), and his garments ( Talmud Shabbat 113b ; Ned.

There is a widely quoted tradition ( Talmud Shabbat 31a ) that in one's judgement in the next world, the first question asked is: " were you honest in business?

19 ( Talmud, tracate Shabbat 105b, 129a, 140b, et al .).

; Talmud tractes Shabbat xv.

Kitzur Shulchan Aruch cites a story from the Talmud ( Shabbat 156b ) about Rav Nachman bar Yitzchok who might have become a thief had his mother not saved him from this fate by insisting that he cover his head, which instilled in him the fear of God.

The source of this account is Shabbat 14: 4-8 and Avodah Zarah 40 in the Jerusalem Talmud, but there ben Pandera is not mentioned.

However in Shabbat 104b and Sanhedrin 67a in the Babylonian Talmud, a passage is found that some have interpreted as equating ben Pandera with ben Stada.

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.

In those years, only some of the 63 tractates of the Talmud were being studied regularly, such as Berachot, Shabbat, and Eruvin, which deal with practical laws, while others, such as Zevachim and Temurah, were hardly studied.

The Babylonian Talmud was the first attempt to attach authors to the holy books: each book, according to the authors of the Talmud, was written by a prophet, and each prophet was an eyewitness of the events described, and Joshua himself wrote " the book that bears his name ".

Probably with his consent, Sabbatai's adherents planned to abolish many of the ritualistic observances because, according to a minority opinion in the Talmud, in the Messianic time there would no longer be holy obligations.

Though there is no clear source of information about this Nicodemus outside the Gospel of John, the Jewish Encyclopedia and many Biblical historians have theorized that he is identical to Nicodemus ben Gurion, mentioned in the Talmud as a wealthy and popular holy man reputed to have had miraculous powers.

The name Yeshu has also been found in a fragment of the Jerusalem Talmud from the Cairo Genizah, a depository for holy texts which are not usable due to age, damage or errors.

Although Jews were forbidden to mock anything deemed holy by Judaism, it was a merit to deride idols ( Talmud Meg.

That same section in the Talmud states that there were no holy days as happy for the Jews as Tu B ' Av and Yom Kippur.

The tekhelet strand serves this purpose, explains the Talmud, for the blue color of tekhelet resembles the ocean, which in turn resembles the sky, which in turn is said to resemble God's holy throne-thus reminding all of the divine mission to fulfill His commandments.

The Talmud states that if tzaraath hadn't been confirmed by a Jewish priest, then a bridegroom with suspected symptoms of it was allowed to postpone any isolation or inspection by a priest until a week after his wedding, and if a person developed suspected symptoms of tzaraath during a holy day, then the isolation and inspection by a priest could be postponed until the holy days had finished.