Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: אלפא-ביתא דרבי עקיבא, Alpha-Beta de-Rabbi Akiva), otherwise known as Letters of Rabbi Akiva (Hebrew: אותיות דרבי עקיבא...

The Alphabet of Sira (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אלפא-ביתא דבן סירא, romanized: Alpā-Bethā də-Ben Sirā) is an anonymous text of the Middle Ages inspired...

Yoḥai) is midrash halakha on Book of Exodus from the school of Rabbi Akiva attributed to Shimon bar Yochai. No midrash of this name is mentioned in Talmudic...

of scholarly debate. In the table, "n.e." designates that the work in question is not extant except in secondary references. Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva Ein...

that Rabbi Akiva died as a martyr. The Talmud suggests that this was a result of divine providence: God had granted the Jewish people another leader of great...

of Rabbi Natan, also known as Avot de-Rabbi Nathan (ARN) (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: אבות דרבי נתן), the first and longest of the minor tractates of the...

Mysteries" The Sword of Moses Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva The Hekhalot literature is post-rabbinical, and not a literature of the rabbis, but since it seeks to stand...

hand, to each of the other four books of the Pentateuch there was a midrash from the school of Rabbi Akiva and one from the school of Rabbi Ishmael, and...

those educated in this area. Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva. This book is a midrash on the names of the letters of the hebrew alphabet. Mekhilta. The Mekhilta essentially...

and to related Talmudic passages. Most editions of the Talmud include brief marginal notes by Akiva Eger under the name Gilyon ha-Shas, and textual notes...

written discussions of generations of rabbis of the Talmudic academies in Syria Palaestina at Tiberias and Caesarea. This version of the Talmud is frequently...

of the Rabbi with whom they originated or whose explanation of the verse in question was used to introduce the section of the Genesis Rabbah. Most of...

possibility is that Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Meir established the divisions and order of subjects in the Mishnah, making them the authors of a school curriculum...

200 CE, rabbis from Babylonia and the Land of Israel extensively studied the work. Their discussions were eventually documented in a series of books, which...

not" (Carmell, 2005). Rabbi Moshe Chaim Luzzatto (1707-1746), discusses this two-tiered, literal-allegorical mode of transmission of the Aggadah in his well-known...

agrees with Rabbi Akiva's opinions. Some authors suggest that Akiva provided for a revised text of the essential base of Targum Onkelos. Some of the more...

basis of his renewed argument for dependence of the TPsJ on the Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer composed in the 9th century, as well as the Chronicles of Moses...

redaction of the Talmud in the 6th century. The minor tractates are normally printed at the end of Seder Nezikin in the Talmud. They include: Avot of Rabbi Natan...

by aggadic parts, and it has all the characteristics of a midrash from the school of Rabbi Akiva. The principles underlying the exposition are the same...

pupils (in a series called A History of the Mishnaic Law, 1978–87) The Tosefta has been translated into English by Rabbi Jacob Neusner and his students in...

by Reform rabbi and editor, Dr. Edward B.M. Browne, known as “Alphabet” Browne, and published in New York in 1876. Joseph Smith, founder of the Latter...

Tehillim), as follows: Simeon ben Gamliel Ishmael ben Elisha ha-Kohen Rabbi Akiva Haninah ben Teradion Judah ben Bava Judah ben Dama Hutzpit the Interpreter...

is the name of an angel in charge of the soundings of the shofar. In the Alphabet of Rabbi Akiva Midrash he is suggested to be Metatron. Yisroel Saba...

He is, on the contrary, Ishmael ben Elisha, Rabbi Akiva's contemporary, as is shown by the passage of Maimonides quoted above. The present Mekhilta...

ancient rabbis. According to some, it was the giving of the Torah; according to others, the crossing of the Red Sea dry-shod, or the falling of the manna...

Bnei Akiva (Hebrew: בְּנֵי עֲקִיבָא, /bneɪ əkivə/, "Children of Akiva") is the largest religious Zionist youth movement in the world, with over 125,000...

Pirkei de-Rabbi Eliezer (Jewish Babylonian Aramaic: פִּרְקֵי דְּרַבִּי אֱלִיעֶזֶר, romanized: pirqe də-rabbi ʾeliʿezer, 'Chapters of Rabbi Eliezer'; abbreviated...

publicly taught in R. Akiva's school; i.e., Aḥare, 13:3-15; Ḳedoshim, 9:1-7, 11:14, and finally, of course, the so-called Baraita de-Rabbi Yishma'el (beginning)...

maintained — against Rabbi Akiva, who (following Hillel the Elder) had singled out the Golden Rule (Leviticus 19:18) — that the principle of love must have...

Rufus and Rabbi Akiva commandment 5, three examples of the love of children, the child and the Book of Genesis commandment 7, the temptation of Mattithiah...