Babylonian Aramaic: סִפְרָא, romanized: sip̄rā, lit. 'document') is the Midrash halakha to the Book of Leviticus. It is frequently quoted in the Talmud...
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Job was one of those who returned from the Captivity and that his bet ha-midrash was at Tiberias. It is said in Bava Batra that these tannaim necessarily...
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Ahava rabbah (redirect from Ahava Raba)
life By Meir Levin, ISBN 1-56871-215-4, page 195 Meoros hadaf hayomi, Volume 1 By Bet ha-midrash di-Ḥaside Sokhaṭshov (Bene Beraḳ, Israel), page 33-35...
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Abraham ben David (redirect from RABaD III)
27 November 1198), also known by the abbreviation RABaD (for Rabbeinu Abraham ben David) Ravad or RABaD III, was a Provençal rabbi, an important commentator...
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Rava (amora) (redirect from Raba Ben Joseph Ben Hama)
decisive in shaping the Bavli's approach to the problem of theodicy, legal midrash, and conceptualization, all of which stand in stark contrast to the Yerushalmi...
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decisions). Only on Fridays could I find time for the reading of Scripture and Midrash in preparation for my lectures on the Sidra of the week and similar topics...
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Hoshana Rabbah (redirect from Hoshana Raba)
verdict and decree for the new year. This idea has no source in the Mishna, Midrash, or Talmud, but a similar idea appears in the Tosefta: that all judgment...
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death in Josephus. The story of Honi the Circle-Maker is also quoted in Midrash Tehillim, chapter 126. According to Josephus in Antiquities of the Jews...
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Tanakh Torah Nevi'im Ketuvim Talmud Mishnah Gemara Rabbinic Midrash Tosefta Targum Beit Yosef Mishneh Torah Tur Shulchan Aruch Zohar...
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Aḥai elaborates on this moral condemnation, quoting from the Talmud and Midrash many passages concerning the baseness and godlessness of such crimes. He...
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shel mikra in concise language, and afterwards brings some of our rabbis' midrash, this is a good commentary, and the reverse is [a] crude [commentary]....
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Unitarian scholar R. Travers Herford wrote Christianity in Talmud and Midrash, which became the standard work on the topic in the Christian world, and...
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the Midrash read מְשֻׁלֶּשֶׁת, meshuleshet, to mean “three-fold” or “three kinds,” indicating sacrifices for three different purposes. The Midrash deduced...
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advantages. He was also friend of a Babylonian rabbi in the Talmud named Raba, Raba's friendship with Shapur II enabled him to secure a relaxation of the oppressive...
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(ex. Tanya), much as an Aramaic work may borrow from Hebrew (ex. Talmud, Midrash, Zohar). Although much less common than Aramaic abbreviations, some Hebrew...
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The Jews of Babylonia in the Talmudic Era, p.26-35 Sefaria Search: שרביה Midrash Tehillim 9:8 Sanhedrin 11b Shabbat 26a Sifre, Deuteronomy 80 Talmud Yerushalmi...
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advantages. He was also friend of a Babylonian rabbi in the Talmud named Raba; Raba's friendship with Shapur II enabled him to secure a relaxation of the oppressive...
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Isaac of Narbonne (RAVaD II) c. 1110–1179 Abraham ben David of Posquières (RABaD/RAVaD III) 1125–1198 Isaac the Blind (Yitzhak Sagi Nehor) Neoplatonic approach...
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holiness. A 7th-century Midrash refers to a western wall of the Temple which "would never be destroyed", and a 6th-century Midrash mentions how Rome was...
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after the destruction of Jerusalem." c. 400: Genesis Rabba (90.6), Jewish midrash, proposes that the word "land" in Genesis 41:54 refers to three lands in...
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ISBN 0853031894{{citation}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link); Gen. Raba 7, Rashi: Mishpachat Av Keruya Mishpacha … en mishpachat av keruya mishpacha...
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Yeshiva in Berlin, published research on the Chumash and Mishnah, expert in Midrash halakha and a halakhic authority Márkus Horovitz (1844–1910), Hungarian...
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of New York Press, ISBN 0791429229 Weiss-Halivni, David (1993), "From midrash to mishna: Theological repercussions and further clarifications of "Chate'u...
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Nehardea, and Yochanan bar Nafcha. Several times he reports that the beit midrash of Rav asked questions to Samuel after the death of Rav, and gives Samuel's...
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