Rabbinical Works
Sacred Days and Seasons
154. Sabbath Rest
--- Exodus 20:8-11
155. Covenanters' Sabbath Rules
--- Dead Sea Scrolls, Damascus Covenant (CD) 10.17-23
156. Covenanters: No Aid for Animals
--- Dead Sea Scrolls, Damascus Covenant (CD) 11.13-14
157. Rabbinic Definition of Work
--- Mishna, Shabbath 7.2
158. Postponing the Sabbath
--- Mishna, Shabba...
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Zera'im ["Seeds"] Agriculture Berakoth ["Blessings"] Prayer
Mo'ed ["Festivals"] Calendar & Ritual Shabbath ["Sabbath"] Sabbath observance
Erubin ["Blendings"] Resolution of problems
Pesachim ["Passovers"] Passover observance
Yoma ["Day (of Atonement)"] Yom Kippur
Rosh HaShanah ["New Year's Day"] Calendar calculations
Ta'anith ["Fasting"] ...
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An Unclean Cup, What Defiles?, Whose House is Dirty?, Tax Collectors Visit, A Leper's Visit, Passing Lepers, Sin causes Sickness, Gentiles & Heretics, Who profanes?, Other Interpretations of Torah, Disciples of Abraham and Balaam, Who is Hostile?, Against Trusting Secular Types, Kosher Marriage, A Woman with Child, Reason for Divorce, Letter of...
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Hebrew term for "Learning" or "Study." The word acquired a technical sense among Jews as reference to the collections of discussions & debates among generations of rabbis who studied the Mishna. The core of the Talmud is the text of the Mishna itself. Thus, it retains the Mishna's order of tractates. The supplementary discussions, which add mat...
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The Hebrew term meaning "Repetition." The oral Torah of the Pharisees was not recorded in a set written form before the 2nd c. CE. Instead this body of tradition was preserved primarily through recitation & memorization. Standardization of the form & content of rabbinic tradition became necessary after the destruction of the temple in Jerus...
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Used in Reference to Rabbinic Writings by Alfred Edersheim. The Mishnah is always quoted according to Tractate, Chapter (Pereq) and Paragraph (Mishnah), the Chapter being marked in Roman, the paragraph in ordinary Numerals. Thus Ber. ii. 4 means the Mishnic Tractate Berakhoth, second Chapter, fourth Paragraph.
The Jerusalem Talmud is distinguished...
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A machine for hurling heavy stones. The "catapulta" was one of the three common types of artillery ("tormenta"), used by the Romans in storming a town....
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Hebrew Bible and basic rabbinic texts (Mishna, Tosefta, and Talmuds). You need Hebrew fonts to use this. [Online Text Archives] [Study Tools] [Collections]...
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Taylor-Schechter collection of the Cairo Genizah documents. Very early Jewish papyri. [Online Text Archives] [Study Tools] [Collections]...
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A Brief Explaination of Rashi's Commentary on the Talmud. Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac (or: Shlomo Yitzhaki) is known by the acronym: RaSh"I[Commentaries][Rabinnical Works]...
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