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 ( 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 ( 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 legal and ritual opinions recorded in Rav's name and his disputes with Samuel constitute the main body of the Babylonian 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 ".

Beruryah ( her name is a standard Jewish female name meaning ' the clarity of God ') is a Tannah mentioned by name in the Talmud, who has a female name, has orally been transmitted as a female, and is referred to in the text using the nekava ( feminine Hebrew and Aramaic ) adjectives and adverbs.

It is traditionally known as the Talmud Yerushalmi (" Jerusalem Talmud "), but the name is a misnomer, as it was not prepared in Jerusalem.

Most editions of the Talmud include brief marginal notes by Akiva Eger under the name Gilyonot ha-Shas, and textual notes by Joel Sirkes and the Vilna Gaon ( see Textual emendations below ), on the page together with the text.

A city by this name located in Israel does appear, however, in Targum Onkelos, Targum Yonatan, Mishnah, Babylonian Talmud and several Midrashim.

Nevertheless, it is significant that, despite the apparently positive description of a Prophet blessing the Israelites, given in Numbers 22 – 24, in rabbinical literature the epithet rasha, translating as the wicked one, is often attached to the name of Balaam ( Talmud Berachot l. c.

* Rav Ammi is the name of a sage mentioned in the Mishnah and Talmud

In the Talmud, Rabbi Joshua interpreted that they petitioned first the assembly, then the chieftains, then Eleazar, and finally Moses, but Abba Chanan said in the name of Rabbi Eliezer that Zelophehad's daughters stood before all of them as they were sitting together.

Sea of Tiberias is also the name mentioned in Roman texts and in the Jerusalem Talmud, and was adopted into Arabic as ( بحيرة طبريا ).

The Babylonian Talmud, as well as Flavius Josephus mention the sea by the name " Sea of Ginnosar " after the small fertile plain of Gennesereth that lies on its western side.

The Talmud ( Menachot 64b and 65a ) relates that his full name was " Mordechai Bilshan " ( which occurs in Ezra 2: 2 and Nehemiah 7: 7 ).

The Talmud provides a Midrashic interpretation of the name Mordechai Bilshan as mara dachia (" pure myrrh ") alluding to Exodus 30: 23 and ba ' al lashon (" master of languages ") reminding us that as a member of the Great Assembly he was familiar with many foreign languages.

Kish was also the name of the father of King Saul, and the Talmud accords Mordecai the status of a descendant of the first King of Israel.

* Hamnuna — Several rabbis in the Talmud bore this name, the most well-known being a disciple of Shmuel ( fl.

" The Holy One, blessed be His name, said to Elijah, ' Behold, the precious gift which I have bestowed on my world: though a man sins again and again, but returns in penitence, I will receive him '" ( Jerusalem Talmud Sanhedrin 28b ).

The Babylonian Talmud maintains that names exert a mystical influence over their bearers, and a change of name is one of four actions that can avert an evil heavenly decree, that would lead to punishment after one's death.

The Talmud ascribes the translation effort to Ptolemy II Philadelphus ( r. 285-246 BC ) who is said to have hired 72 Jewish scholars for the purpose, for which reason the translation is commonly known as the Septuagint, a name which it gained around AD 354-430, " the time of Augustine of Hippo ".

The name is Babylonian in origin and appeared in the Talmud around the 3rd century.

The Talmud also uses this spelling irregularity to suggest, according to the opinion of Rabbi Yehudah in the name of Rabbi Tarfon, that the lulav must be bound if its leaves spread away from the spine of the palm.