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 ( Nedarim 23b ) says, " Who wished to cancel his vows of a whole year should arise on Rosh Hashanah and announce, ' All vows that I will pledge in the coming year shall be annulled.

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.

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.

The Talmud itself gives no information concerning the origin of the middot, although the Geonim regarded them as Sinaitic.

All mainstream forms of Judaism today are open to sincere converts, although conversion has traditionally been discouraged since the time of the Talmud.

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.

The Babylonian Talmud was compiled about the year 500 CE, although it continued to be edited later.

A Dall sheep | Dall Sheep with horns. According to the Talmud, a shofar may be made from the horn of any animal from the Bovidae family except that of a cow although a ram is preferable.

Following Jacob's return to Orthodox Judaism, he sent Marcus, his youngest son, to the cheder at the age of 5, where he studied the Talmud although his elder siblings had been educated in the public school system.

The vocabulary and grammatical structure of Yeshivish is drawn primarily from the speaker's native language ( see above ), although it includes scholarly jargon, primarily from the Talmud and Acharonim in Yiddish, Hebrew, and Aramaic.

Aramaic, however, remained the language of the Jews in Israel as well as of those in Babylonia, although in the latter country a large number of Persian words found their way into the language of daily intercourse and into that of the schools, a fact which is attested by the numerous Persian derivatives in the Babylonian Talmud.

The Talmud also suggests that Tamar's actions were for the purpose of avoiding Judah's humiliation, although the Genesis Rabbah portrays her as boastful and unashamed in regard to the pregnancy itself.

Van Voorst states that although the question of who was referred to in various points in the Talmud remains subject to debate among scholars, in the case of Sanhedrin 43a ( generally considered the most important reference to Jesus in rabbinic literature ), Jesus can be confirmed as the subject of the passage, not only from the reference itself, but from the context that surrounds it, and there is little doubt that it refers to the death of Jesus of Nazareth.

No known manuscript of the Jerusalem Talmud makes mention of the name although one translation ( Herford ) has added it to Avodah Zarah 2: 2 to align it with similar text of Chullin 2: 22 in the Tosefta.

The oldest works in which references to Yeshu occur are the Tosefta and the Talmud, although some scholars consider the references to Yeshu to be post-Talmudic additions.

His first care was to raise the intellectual plane of the community, and for this purpose he interested the younger generation in the study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature, and he delivered sermons every other Shabbat in Hebrew, although the vernacular language was Arabic, one which Bertinoro never acquired.

In the Talmud, Gamaliel is described as bearing the titles Nasi and Rabban ( our master ), as the president of the Great Sanhedrin in Jerusalem ; although some dispute this, it is not doubted that he held a senior position in the highest court in Jerusalem.

However, there is no other record of Gamaliel ever having taught in public, although the Talmud does describe Gamaliel as teaching a student who displayed " impudence in learning ", which a few scholars identify as a possible reference to Paul.

The oldest known reference to the game is thought to be a passage in the Talmud, although some claim it refers to the Greek game Kubeia.

The Talmud specifically states that although onycha ( shecheleth ) is not from a tree, it does grow from the ground and that it is a plant ( Kerithoth 6b ).

Amateur researcher K. A. Brook considers this Mosaism to have been a form of Talmudic Judaism and although the clerical Karaim-Karaylar do not observe Hillelite Halakhah, the Shammai Halakhah presented in the Talmud is known to them again disassociating Karaims from Karaite Jews who completely reject all oral tradition ..

Rogen attended Vancouver Talmud Torah Elementary School and Point Grey Secondary School ( although he never graduated ), incorporating many of his classmates into his writing.

For example, the Mishnah teaches that a learned mamzer should take precedence over an ignorant Jewish High Priest ; the meaning of take precedence is not explicitly explained by the Mishnah, nor by the Talmud in general, although the preceding part of the Mishnah uses it to refer to the priority in which people should be rescued from danger, while other bits of the Mishnah use the phrase to refer to the priority in which people should receive aliyot.

:" The term ... is not found in the Talmud Bavli, although the days referred to are mentioned there.

The tractate has no existing Gemara, although commentary on key elements of the procedure is found in the Gemarah for other tractates of the Talmud.

Following in the tradition of the Talmud and the Midrash, many of the most notable Jewish philosophers were dedicated to the field of ethics ( although this ethical Jewish rationalism rested on the notion that traditional approaches had not been successful in their treatments of the subject in that they were lacking in rational, scientific arguments ) ( Dan, p. 117 ).