• The House of Hillel (Beit Hillel) and House of Shammai (Beit Shammai) were, among Jewish scholars, two schools of thought during the period of tannaim...
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    literature, the Mishnah. Shammai was the most eminent contemporary of Hillel. His teachings mostly agree with those of Hillel, except on three issues....
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    King Herod), and later with Shammai (Hillel's peer in the teaching of Jewish Law). According to the Jerusalem Talmud (Nedarim 5:6), Hillel the Elder had...
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  • generation of the Zugot, there were few disagreements among Rabbinic scholars. After this period, though, the Houses of Hillel and Shammai came to represent...
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    by the Houses of Hillel and Shammai, or else by Hillel and Shammai themselves (in the year circa 32 BCE). It concludes that Hillel and Shammai issued...
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    academies of the Houses of Hillel and Shammai, albeit Rav and Samuel agreed with each other far more often than did the houses of Hillel and Shammai. Thus...
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  • Hallel (category Hebrew words and phrases in Jewish prayers and blessings)
    between the Houses of Hillel and Shammai regarding the reading of Hallel during the Seder. According to the school of Shammai, only the first psalm (Ps...
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    the Houses of Hillel and Shammai in favor of the House of Hillel, according to a Talmudic sugya in which the bat kol said, Elu ve-elu, these and those...
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  • academies, the Houses of Hillel and Shammai. Besides favoring the House of Hillel, the sugya delves into rabbinic law for the use of a sukkah, a ritual...
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    Kfar Shamai (redirect from Kfar Shammai)
    based on Shammai the Elder, who was the partner of Hillel the Elder. According to Jewish tradition, Shammai was buried in Har Meron or in "Shammai Hill"...
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  • Hemerobaptists (possible ancestor of Mandaeism) Maghāriya Nasoraeans (ancestor of Mandaeism) Hellenistic Judaism Houses of Hillel and Shammai Hypsistarianism Magarites...
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    Local Media LLC. Engelmayer, Shammai (25 January 2018). "Jerusalem, Frisch, and Jewish law". The Jewish Standard. Times of Israel. Associated, Press (21...
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  • who had received it from Shammai and Hillel, the last Zug." But Rabban Gamaliel I was the grandson, perhaps the son, of Hillel, whom he had ..." Cutler...
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    Beth midrash (category Hebrew words and phrases)
    ideological roots back to the rabbis of the late Second Temple period, specifically the Houses of Hillel and Shammai, two schools of thought. By late antiquity...
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  • the disputes between the Houses of Hillel and Shammai) within the ranks of the Pharisees, culminating in the collections of traditional laws (Halakoth)...
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  • in Christianity Expounding of the Law#Divorce Get (divorce document) Jewish views of marriage Houses of Hillel and Shammai (for information regarding...
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    of Hillel and Shammai are active in their writing. Hillel the Elder and Menahem, with Menahem later replaced by Shammai, are considered the last of the...
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    street was named for Hillel the Elder, and a street parallel to it is called Shammai Street (after Shammai the Elder). Most of the buildings on the street...
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    evening and in the morning, and the number of blessings which precede and follow the reading; the controversy between the Houses of Hillel and Shammai regarding...
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  • the school of Shammai binds; the school of Hillel looses. Theoretically, however, the authority of the poseks proceeded from the Sanhedrin, and there is...
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  • Jerusalem and a high-ranking member of the Sanhedrin whose influential house opposes the House of Shammai. He is the son of Hillel. Uzziah (Ryan Radis) (season...
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    point of view can be traced to his theory of the development of the Mishnah. He even goes so far as to overrule both the Houses of Hillel and Shammai concerning...
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  • house, compiled Megillat Ta'anit." According to Halakhot Gedolot, "Hilkot Soferim", the members of this synod were elders of the Houses of Hillel and...
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    Asceticism in Judaism (category Judaism and society)
    for Torah study. The two great rabbinical schools of the first century, the Houses of Hillel and Shammai, debated the question whether life was worth living...
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    version of events has perished. In addition, Hillel's views have been seen as superior to Shammai's by Rabbinic Judaism. The development of an oral tradition...
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    Reformed fundamentalism (category Calvinist and Reformed Christians)
    rabbinic commentaries (e.g. Mishnah-Tosefta, Houses of Hillel and Shammai traditions, Ezra's school of scribes etc.). The Great Assembly (Neh. 9-10)...
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  • (Hebrew: רבי יונתן, romanized: Rabi Yonatan) was a tanna of the 2nd century and schoolfellow of R. Josiah, apart from whom he is rarely quoted. Jonathan...
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  • while he stood on one foot. Shammai drove him away. The same gentile approached Hillel and asked of him the same thing. Hillel chastised him gently by saying...
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    Bikur cholim (category Jewish law and rituals)
    common practice; the House of Shammai opposed this, but the House of Hillel viewed this as a mitzvah, and the view of Hillel became part of halakha. Additionally...
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    Haggai (category Book of Ezra people)
    marriage with one of his deceased brother's co-wives (a teaching accepted by the School of Hillel, but rejected by the School of Shammai); (b) that Jews...
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