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reason and Talmud
The first who mentions the Fast of Esther is Rabbi Achai Gaon ( Acha of Shabcha ) ( 8th century CE ) in She ' iltot 4 ; the reason there given for its institution is based on an interpretation of, and Talmud Megillah 2a: " The 13th was the time of gathering ", which gathering is explained to have had also the purpose of public prayer and fasting.
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 latter has been confirmed to a certain extent by versions of the Talmud preserved by the Yemenite Jews as to the reason for what previously were thought to be rulings without any source.
It was thought that the compilers of the Jerusalem Talmud lacked the time to produce a work of the quality they had intended, and that this is the reason why the Gemara do not comment upon the whole Mishnah.
The questions were usually limited to one or more specific cases, while the responsum to such a query gave a ruling, a concise reason for it, together with supporting citations from the Talmud, and often a refutation of any possible objection.
The ancient Jewish law code, the Talmud, included reasoning from presumptions ( hazakah ), propositions taken to be true unless there was reason to believe otherwise, such as " One does not ordinarily pay a debt before term.

reason and is
I suppose the reason is a kind of wishful thinking: don't talk about the final stages of Reconstruction and they will take care of themselves.
Lucretius has remarked: `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause, and these they attribute to the will of God ''.
For this reason, too, their language is more forthright and earthy.
The mind has betrayed them, reason is the foe of life ; ;
Man, we are told, is endowed with reason and is capable of distinguishing good from bad.
The problem is rather to find out what is actually happening, and this is especially difficult for the reason that `` we are busily being defended from a knowledge of the present, sometimes by the very agencies -- our educational system, our mass media, our statesmen -- on which we have had to rely most heavily for understanding of ourselves ''.
Some even say that this is the reason for the ultimate acceptance of the former.
The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.
There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.
`` The reason for this '', the orders said, `` is that the enemy may think to take advantage of the celebration of this day.
Because of these involvements in the matter at stake, Boniface lacked the impartiality that is supposed to be an essential qualification for the position of arbiter, and in retrospect that would seem to be sufficient reason why the English embassies to the Curia proved so fruitless.
One reason is, of course, that the new scepticism has been willing to maintain the general picture of the invasions as portrayed in the traditional sources.
The other reason ( and the one with which I am here concerned ) is that one thus becomes inclined to inquire of any opinion, or change of opinion, whether it represents the wisdom of experience or is only the result of the difference between youth and age which is as inevitable as the all too obvious physical differences.
Many readers of this department no doubt discount certain of my opinions for the simple reason that they can guess pretty accurately, even if they have never actually been told, what my age is.
The reason is, I think, my awareness that my remarks last quarter on pacifism may well have served to confirm the opinion of some that my tendency to skepticism and dissent gets us nowhere, and that I am simply too old to hope.
Conceived as an organ of economic cooperation, there is no reason why O.E.C.D. cannot evolve into a broader instrument of union if its members so desire.
The trouble with this machinery is that it is not used and the reason that it is not used is the absence of a conscious sense of community among the free nations.

reason and usually
Reactionary theories, for this reason, usually assume some form of organismic theory.
The reason, says the Housing Center, is that the builders invited to the intentions conference `` are generally among the more successful businessmen, and usually do somewhat better than their fellow builders ''.
Generally, there is no trial in an appellate court, only consideration of the record of the evidence presented to the trial court and all the pre-trial and trial court proceedings are reviewed — unless the appeal is by way of re-hearing, new evidence will usually only be considered on appeal in " very " rare instances, for example if that material evidence was unavailable to a party for some very significant reason such as prosecutorial misconduct.
Aphrodite is usually said to have been born near Paphos, on the island of Cyprus, for which reason she is called " Cyprian ", especially in the poetic works of Sappho.
For this reason, they are usually applied topically or gastrointestinally.
These songs usually have a very punctuated rhythm precisely for this reason, along with a call-and-answer format.
Autonomous buildings are usually energy-efficient in operation, and therefore cost-efficient, for the obvious reason that smaller energy needs are easier to satisfy off-grid.
Rather, the bishop is head of a titular see, which is usually an ancient city that used to have a bishop, but, for some reason or other, does not have one now.
This is the reason that judicial opinions are usually quite long, and give rationales and policies that can be balanced with judgment in future cases, rather than the bright-line rules usually embodied in statutes.
For this reason it is usually reinforced with materials that are strong in tension ( often steel ).
The reason for this is that although the Scandinavian peninsula is attached to Continental Europe by Karelia etc., it is usually reached by sea, not by land ( which would require travelling north as far as Tornio at the 66th parallel north ).
All three worked at the Guinness brewery in Dublin-for this reason the Irish Dadaists are usually referred to as the " Guinness Dadaists.
In all cases, the term diaspora carries a sense of displacement ; that is, the population so described finds itself for whatever reason separated from its national territory, and usually its people have a hope, or at least a desire, to return to their homeland at some point, if the " homeland " still exists in any meaningful sense.
* A priori knowledge is knowledge that is known independently of experience ( that is, it is non-empirical, or arrived at beforehand, usually by reason ).
A submachine gun is a magazine-fed firearm, usually smaller than other automatic firearms, that fires pistol-caliber ammunition ; for this reason submachine guns are also commonly called machine pistols, especially when referring to handgun-sized designs such as the Škorpion vz.
For this reason as well as the metal contamination and freezing-expansion problems, samples of gallium metal are usually supplied in polyethylene packets within other containers.
For this reason, Gardnerian Wicca is usually considered to be the earliest extant tradition of Wicca, from which most subsequent Wiccan traditions are derived.
The reason is that this treatment requires nuclear radiological expertise and facilities, since the animal's urine, sweat, saliva, and stool are radioactive for several days after the treatment, requiring special inpatient handling and facilities usually for a total of 3 weeks ( first week in total isolation and the next two weeks in close confinement ).
In the Spanish individualist anarchist magazine Ética and Iniciales " there is a strong interest in publishing scientific news, usually linked to a certain atheist and anti-theist obsession, philosophy which will also work for pointing out the incompatibility between science and religion, faith and reason.
Peremptory challenges are usually based on the hunches of the counsels and no reason is needed to use them.
When the tests set out by the Rules are satisfied, the accused may be adjudged " not guilty by reason of insanity " or " guilty but insane " and the sentence may be a mandatory or discretionary ( but usually indeterminate ) period of treatment in a secure hospital facility, or otherwise at the discretion of the court ( depending on the country and the offence charged ) instead of a punitive disposal.
The obiter dicta is usually translated as " other things said ", but due to the high number of judges and several personal decisions, it is often hard to distinguish from the ratio decidendi ( reason for the decision ).
For this reason, the obiter dicta may usually be taken into consideration.

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