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Tal·mud

(täl′mo͝od, tăl′məd)

n. Judaism

The collection of ancient Rabbinic writings consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara, constituting the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism.

[Mishnaic Hebrew talmûd, learning, instruction, from Hebrew lāmad, to learn; see lmd in Semitic roots.]

Tal·mu′dic (täl-mo͞o′dĭk, -myo͞o′-, tăl-), Tal·mu′di·cal (-dĭ-kəl) adj.

Tal′mud·ist (täl′mo͝o-dĭst, tăl′mə-) n.

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Talmud

(ˈtælmʊd)

1. (Judaism) the primary source of Jewish religious law, consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara

2. (Judaism) either of two recensions of this compilation, the Palestinian Talmud of about 375 ad, or the longer and more important Babylonian Talmud of about 500 ad

[C16: from Hebrew talmūdh, literally: instruction, from lāmadh to learn]

Talˈmudic, Talˈmudical adj

ˈTalmudism n

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Tal•mud

(ˈtɑl mʊd, ˈtæl məd)

n.

1. the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.

2. the Gemara.

[1525–35; < Hebrew talmūdh literally, instruction]

Tal•mud′ic, Tal•mud′i•cal, adj.

Tal′mud•ism, n.

Talmud

With the Tenakh, Judaism’s two most sacred collections of writings. This is a collection of legal and ethical writings, history, and folkore.

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Talmud - the collection of ancient rabbinic writings on Jewish law and tradition (the Mishna and the Gemara) that constitute the basis of religious authority in Orthodox Judaism

Gemara - the second part of the Talmud consisting primarily of commentary on the Mishna

Mishna, Mishnah - the first part of the Talmud; a collection of early oral interpretations of the scriptures that was compiled about AD 200

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Talmud

[ˈtælmʊd] N → Talmud m

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Friends and colleagues celebrate the academic work of Macuch, whom they characterize as the foremost living expert on Sasanian law, with papers on such matters as Iranian linguistics and philology, Judeo-Persian, Zoroastrian law and religion, Manichaeism, and the Babylonian Talmud. Among their topics are about the epithet pauruuaniia- of the Zoroastrian Sacred Girdle (Y 9.26), the Torah of temporary marriage: a study in cultural history, the technical term tarkib ("compound") in the indigenous Persian scientific literature, normative and theological dissent in early Zoroastrian law: Pahlavi Nirangestan 23, and the wisdom of Ahiqar and the wisdom of Adurbad: a Manichaean parallel.

A Thousand Judgements: Festschrift for Maria Macuch

(ed.) The Babylonian Talmud, Seder Nezikin, Tractate Aboth.

THE JEWISH FAITH AND PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT AMONG XXIST CENTURY RELIGIOUS SCHOLARS

This was by a ruling in the Babylonian Talmud stating that only the menorah in the Temple could have seven branches and thus lamps used in domestic contexts commonly had eight to eleven branches.

First Ever 2,000-Year Old Jewish Settlement Uncovered in Be'er Sheva

Elman invokes Axial Age theory as a heuristic to tease out the cognitive styles and modes of explanation from the textual output of scholars and scribes of Mesopotamia, rabbis of the Babylonian Talmud, and Zoroastrian priests as a means to assess contacts, commonalities, and differences between them.

Encounters by the Rivers of Babylon

Amulets related to Jewish tradition date back to ancient times and appear in the Babylonian Talmud and in the Kabbalistic tradition.

The Beguiling Language of Dress

Sigmund Freud would have called this "projection." In fact, the concept goes back at least as far as the Babylonian Talmud, which warned: "Do not taunt your neighbor with the blemish you yourself have."

The curious case of the Trump whisperer: Miller

In "Thought and the Perception of Time: Aristotle, Plato, the Hebrew Bible, and the Babylonian Talmud" Professor Trachtenberg analyzes thought using two models, demonstrating that while Greeks think step by step, sequentially, like in a logical syllogism, Jews do so in a multi-stream parallel process in which many factors affect decision-making simultaneously.

Thought and the Perception of Time

(156) See Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 34a (quoting the verse that compares the Torah to "a hammer that shatters rock" [Jer.

Leveraging Legal Indeterminacy: The Rule of Law in Jewish Jurisprudence

(Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 43a, Munich Codex.) Another states: "May we produce no son or pupil who disgraces himself in public like the Nazarene"-a title often applied to Jesus.

Jesus existed and historians prove it

However, by the time of the Babylonian Talmud, the rabbis have adopted a more favorable stance toward the ancient visionary.

The Watchers in Jewish and Christian Traditions

(14.) It should be noted that unlike the Babylonian Talmud, on which Maimonides based himself, the Jerusalem Talmud has a very different understanding of how the Tabernacle of Shiloh was built.