Rabbinic tradition holds that the people cited in both Talmuds did not have a hand in its writings ; rather, their teachings were edited into a rough form around 450 CE ( Talmud Yerushalmi ) and 550 CE ( Talmud Bavli.

One view in the Talmud holds that a repentant sinner attains a more exalted spiritual eminence than one who has never sinned ( Talmud Berakhoth 34b.

Per the context, this man was an Israelite by lineage, which ( if the Kenizzite hypothesis holds ) would make it implausible that he and the other Caleb are the same person ( even though the Talmud argues so in Sotah 11b ).

Rabbi Moshe Isserles ( the Rema ) holds that the definition according to the Jerusalem Talmud should be used, which includes within its precept the definition of the Babylonian Talmud.

He was filled with knowledge of the Bible and the Talmud.

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

According to the Talmud ( Avodah Zarah 10a-b ), Rabbi Judah was very wealthy and greatly revered in Rome.

Abba Arikka ( 175 – 247 ) ( Talmudic Aramaic: ; born: Abba bar Aybo, Hebrew: רבי אבא בר איבו ) was a Jewish Talmudist who lived in Sassanid Babylonia, known as an amora ( commentator on the Oral Law ) of the 3rd century who established at Sura the systematic study of the rabbinic traditions, which, using the Mishnah as text, led to the compilation of the Talmud.

The method of treatment of the traditional material to which the Talmud owes its origin was established in Babylonia by Rav.

On 9 February 2012, Steinsaltz was honored by Israeli President Shimon Peres with Israel's first President's Prize for his scholarship in Talmud.

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 ".

It is dated to the 4th century BCE and according to the Talmud was a redaction by the Great Assembly of an original text by Mordecai.

According to the Babylonian Talmud, the difference between a concubine and a full wife was that the latter received a marriage contract ( Hebrew: ketubah ) and her marriage ( nissu ' in ) was preceded by a formal betrothal ( erusin ), neither being the case for a concubine.

It was said in the Talmud about the death penalty in Judaism, that if a court killed more than one person in seventy years, it was a barbarous ( or " bloody ") court and should be condemned as such.

Also, according to the Talmud Yerushalmi, David was born and died on the Jewish holiday of Shavuot ( Feast of Weeks ).

Rava states in the Babylonian Talmud that although Ezekiel describes the appearance of the throne of God ( Merkabah ), this is not because he had seen more than the prophet Isaiah, but rather because the latter was more accustomed to such visions ; for the relation of the two prophets is that of a courtier to a peasant, the latter of whom would always describe a royal court more floridly than the former, to whom such things would be familiar.

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

This was the framework upon which the Talmud was based ; the Talmud's dialectic analysis of the content of the Mishna ( gemara ; completed c. 500 ) became the basis for all later halakhic decisions and subsequent codes.

The Talmud ( Pesachim 87a ) claims from God that he was the greatest prophet of his generation, which included the more famous Isaiah.

For the sages of the Mishnah and Talmud, and for their successors today, the study of Torah was therefore not merely a means to learn the contents of God's revelation, but an end in itself.

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 Jewish Talmud, dating back about 1800 years, suggests a cure for gum ailments containing " dough water " and olive oil.

According to the Talmud, extinction of the soul is reserved for a far much smaller group of malicious and evil leaders, either whose very evil deeds go way beyond norms, or who lead large groups of people to utmost evil.

*" Man will be called to account for having deprived himself of the good things which the world offered " ( Jerusalem Talmud Kiddushin end ).

In 1965, he founded the Israel Institute for Talmudic Publications and began his monumental work on the Talmud, including translation into Hebrew, English, Russian, and various other languages.

The Talmud in Bava Batra 14b gives a different order for the books in Nevi ' im and Ketuvim.

Because Judaism focuses on this life, many questions to do with survival and conflict ( such as the classic moral dilemma of two people in a desert with only enough water for one to survive ) were analysed in great depth by the rabbis within the Talmud, in the attempt to understand the principles a godly person should draw upon in such a circumstance.

The Talmud describes the blind as having " much light " ( Aramaic סגי נהור ) and this phrase — sagee nahor — is the Modern Hebrew for euphemism.

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 ".

Those in the traditionalist wing of these movements believe that the halakha represents a personal starting-point, holding that each Jew is obligated to interpret the Torah, Talmud and other Jewish works for themselves, and this interpretation will create separate commandments for each person.

According to the Talmud, at the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem following the victory of the Maccabees over the Seleucid Empire, there was only enough consecrated oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day.

From the time of the Mishnah and Talmud to the present, Judaism has required specialists or authorities for the practice of very few rituals or ceremonies.

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

The intensity of debate spurred Catholic Church interventions against " heresy " and even a general confiscation of Rabbinic texts and in reaction, the defeat of the more radical interpretations of Maimonides and at least amongst Ashkenazi Jews, a tendency not so much to repudiate as simply to ignore the specifically philosophical writings and to stress instead the Rabbinic and halachic writings ; even these writings often included considerable philosophical chapters or discussions in support of halachic observance, as David Hartman observes Maimonides made clear " the traditional support for a philosophical understanding of God both in the Aggadah of Talmud and in the behavior of the hasid pious Jew " and so Maimonidean thought continues to influence traditionally observant Jews.

These debates eventually came to be edited together into compilations known as the Talmud: the Talmud Yerushalmi ( Jerusalem Talmud ) for the compilation in Israel, and Talmud Bavli ( Babylonian Talmud ) for the compilation undertaken in Babylon.

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.

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.

Emden argued that the Zohar misquotes passages of Scripture ; misunderstands the Talmud ; contains some ritual observances which were ordained by later rabbinical authorities ; mentions The Crusades against Muslims ( who did not exist in the 2nd century ); uses the expression " esnoga ," a Portuguese term for " synagogue "; and gives a mystical explanation of the Hebrew vowel-points, which were not introduced until long after the Talmudic period.

* 1263 – Nahmanides, chief rabbi of Catalonia, defends the Talmud in an important disputation against Pablo Christiani before King James I of Aragon.

* Nahmanides, chief rabbi of Catalonia, defends the Talmud in an important disputation against Pablo Christiani before King James I of Aragon.

The Talmud refers to Shavuot as Atzeret ( Hebrew: עצרת, literally, " refraining " or " holding back "), referring to the prohibition against work on this holiday and to the conclusion of the holiday and season of Passover.

In one account, given in the Talmud, they destroyed the city's food supply so that the people would be forced to fight against the Roman siege instead of negotiating peace.

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 ).

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 ).

He wrote a number of works, such as Toledot Ya ' akob ( 1652 ), an index of Biblical passages found in the haggadah of the Jerusalem Talmud, similar to Aaron Pesaro's Toledot Aharon, which relates to the Babylonian Talmud only ; Ohel Ya ' ako ( 1737 ) that were polemical correspondence against Zevi and his followers.

The Talmud indicates that when Rabbi Gamaliel II undertook to fix definitely the public service and to regulate private devotion, he directed Samuel ha-Katan to write another paragraph inveighing against informers and heretics, which was inserted as the twelfth prayer in modern sequence, making the number of blessings nineteen.

According to the Talmud Gamaliel directed Samuel ha-Katan to write another paragraph against informers and heretics making the number nineteen ( Ber.

The Talmud ( in Bava Kamma, 83b-84a ), interprets the verses referring to " an eye for an eye " and similar expressions as mandating monetary compensation in tort cases and argues against the interpretations by Sadducees that the Bible verses refer to physical retaliation in kind, using the argument that such an interpretation would be inapplicable to blind or eyeless offenders.

The work was mainly written as a defence of Rabbinic Judaism against the views of the Karaites, who rejected the oral law ( Mishna and Talmud ).

The core citations from classical Judaic sources cited by Teitelbaum in his arguments against modern Zionism are based on a passage in the Talmud, Rabbi Yosi b ' Rebbi Hanina explains ( Kesubos 111a ) that the Lord imposed " Three Oaths " on the nation of Israel: a ) Israel should not return to the Land together, by force ; b ) Israel should not rebel against the other nations ; and c ) The nations should not subjugate Israel too harshly.

Talmud cautions against public charity to avoid offending the dignity of the recipient.

Paulescu has been criticized for expressing antisemitic and anti-Masonic views in articles such as The Judeo-Masonic plot against the Romanian nation ( expressed in his book, Philosophic Physiology: The Hospital, the Koran, the Talmud, the Kahal and Freemasonry ).

According to several authorities, a decision may not be rendered in opposition to a view of Maimonides, even where he apparently militated against the sense of a Talmudic passage, for in such cases the presumption was that the words of the Talmud were incorrectly interpreted.

Thus they reproached him because he wrote in Hebrew instead of in the customary Talmudic idiom, because he departed from the Talmudic order and introduced a division and arrangement of his own, and because he dared to sometimes decide according to the Tosefta and the Jerusalem Talmud as against the Babylonian Talmud.