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  Jerusalem Talmud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Like the Babylonian Talmud, the purpose of the Jerusalem Talmud was to elaborate on the Jewish Oral tradition as detailed in the 2nd-century Mishnah, following whose redaction many Jewish scholars living in Roman-controlled Palestine moved to Persia due to the harsh decrees against Jews enacted by the emperor Hadrian after the Bar Kokhba's revolt.
The Jerusalem Talmud naturally has a greater focus on the Land of Israel and the Torah's agricultural laws pertaining to the land because it was written in the Land of Israel were the laws applied.
Another catalyst expected to increase study of the Jerusalem Talmud is its pending translation to English, to join the popular translation of the Babylonian Talmud in the Artscroll series, which was recently completed.
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 Talmud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The primary commentary on the Babylonian Talmud is that of Rashi (Rabbi Solomon ben Isaac, 1040-1105).
The Talmud was likewise the subject of a disputation at Barcelona in 1263 between Nahmanides (Rabbi Moses ben Nahman) and Pablo Christiani.
The Censorship of the Talmud and other Hebrew works was introduced by a papal bull issued in 1554; five years later the Talmud was included in the first Index Expurgatorius; and Pope Pius IV commanded, in 1565, that the Talmud be deprived of its very name.
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 Jerusalem Talmud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Jerusalem Talmud (In Hebrew Talmud Yerushalmi in short known as the Yerushalmi) also known as the Palestinian Talmud (not related to current "Palestinian" issues all!) was composed in the Land of Israel some two centuries before the Babylonian (which is known as the Talmud Bavli or simpy the Bavli in Hebrew).
With the return of the Jews to the land of Israel in modern times the Jerusalem Talmud taken on greater relevance and popularity with and rabbinical scholars and is being studied increasing numbers of scholars within the world Orthodox Judaism.
Jerusalem and Athens: The Congruity of Talmudic and Classical Philosophy (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, V. A Guide to the Jerusalem Talmud: The Compilation and Composition of the Jerusalem Talmud, the Cultural, Economic and Political Conditions in the Land of Israel During Its Development
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 Talmud from WUJS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Talmud embodies the labours, opinions, and teachings of the ancient Jewish scholars in expounding and developing the religious and civil laws of the Bible during a period of some eight centuries (from 300 BCE to 500 CE).
The Talmud is ordered in the same way as the Mishnah, which is not surprising as it consists of the Mishnah and very extensive commentary on the Mishnah (the Gemara).
It is because study of Talmud is not seen as merely a means to some end that minority opinions and entire arguments are recorded and learnt in the Talmud.
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 NationMaster.com - Encyclopedia: Jerusalem Talmud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Amora, plural Amoraim, (from the Hebrew root amar to say or tell over), were renowned Jewish scholars who said or told over the teachings of the Oral law, from about 200 to 500 CE in Babylonia and Palestine.
The word Jew (Hebrew: יהודי;) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes.
Ohr Somayach is both the pen name of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk and also refers to his major written work known by its Hebrew name of Ohr Somayach (Light [that is] Happy, or Delightful) Ohr Somayach yeshivas, based on the pen name of Rabbi Meir Simcha of Dvinsk is...
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 ipedia.com: Jerusalem Talmud Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Jerusalem Talmud (In Hebrew Talmud Yerushalmi, in short known as the Yerushalmi), also known as the Palestinian Talmud, (not related to current "Palestinian" issues at all!), was composed in the Land of Israel some two centuries before the Babylonian Talmud, (which is known as the Talmud Bavli or simpy the Bavli in Hebrew).
The Jerusalem Talmud applies to the land of Israel, whereas the Babylonian is specific to the Diaspora.
Jerusalem therefore included rules about tithes and land that applied only to a VERY small portion of Jews throughout history (those in the land of Israel).
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 Talmud on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
TALMUD [Talmud] [Aramaic from Heb.,=learning], in Judaism, vast compilation of the Oral Law with rabbinical elucidations, elaborations, and commentaries, in contradistinction to the Scriptures or Written Laws.
The legal sections of the Talmud are known as the halakah ; the poetical digressions, illustrating the application of religious and ethical principles through parables, legends, allegories, tales, and anecdotes, constitute the Aggada.
The term Talmud is sometimes used to refer to the Gemara alone.
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 Jerusalem Talmud: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The schools were the Jerusalem Talmud was being gathered had to be hidden.
(the Jerusalem Talmud has taken on greater relevance and popularity with Talmudical and rabbinical scholars and is being studied by increasing numbers of scholars within the world of Orthodox Judaism[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject].
In talmudic times (and to this day in yemenite jewish communities) targum jonathan was read as a verse-by-verse translation alternatively with the hebrew verses of...
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/je/jerusalem_talmud.htm   (1803 words)

  
 The Talmud: Judaism's holiest book documented and exposed
The Talmud states that it is not a sin to apply the holy oil to Gentiles, because Gentiles are not human beings (i.e.
The rabbi proceeded to flatly deny that the Talmud contained anti-Gentile or anti-Christian passages and on the basis of the rabbi's "prestige," this elderly and ailing woman was sentenced to three months in jail and fined the equivalent of $1,000.
Under the Talmud's counterfeit Noahide Laws, the worship of Jesus is forbidden under penalty of death, since such worship of Christ is condemned by Judaism as idolatry.
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The Jerusalem Talmud was authored in Israel Most of the Jerusalem Talmud was compiled by Rabbi Johanan who lived in the third century.
Much of the Yerushalimi or Jerusalem Talmud is incomplete, maybe due to the political torment of the times.
The Babylonian Talmud was complied by Rav Ashi in the end of the fourth century but probably not completed until the end of the fifth.
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 Definition of Jerusalem Talmud
The purpose of the Jerusalem talmud was to elaborate on the Mishna, the written text of the Oral tradition (The Torah "lists the rules" while the oral law deals with application.), that had been redacted by Rabbi Judah haNasi in about 200 CE.
It has a greater focus on the Land of Israel and the Torah's agricultural laws pertaining to the land because it was written in the Land of Israel were the laws applied.
The Jerusalem is missing an order of the Babylonian Talmud, Kodshim, which involves sacrificial rites and the Temple, laws that wouldn't be needed then and were only put in the Babylonian Talmud due to the extra time an energy they had to devote to writing.
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 Judaism 101 - A Glossary of Basic Jewish Terms and Concepts
- the Jerusalem Talmud, as opposed to the "Talmud Bavli," the Babylonian Talmud.
This version of the Talmud was compiled in "Eretz Yisrael," the Land of Israel; see Talmud.
They are "Adam HaRishon" (First Man), Malkitzedek (King of Jerusalem in time of Avraham), Avraham, Moshe, Heyman (not to be confused with the evil Haman of Purim notoriety), Yeduthun, Asaph, and the three sons of Korach.
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 Jerusalem Talmud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Jerusalem Talmud was doing all right, it was at the same pace of the Babylonian Talmud which was started around the same time.
The Jerusalem Talmud like the Babylonian has only one Tractate in the Order Tohorot, due to that order speaking about ritual purity, something that can only apply when the Temple is standing.
With the finishing by Artscroll in translating the Babylonian Talmud into english on May 17, 2005, the company will begin to translate the Jerusalem Talmud into english.
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 Talmud - Wikiquote
The Talmud (התלמוד) is considered an authoritative record of rabbinic discussions on Jewish law, Jewish ethics, customs, legends and stories.
There are two distinct gemaras: the Yerushalmi and the Bavli, and two corresponding Talmuds: Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud) and the Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud); The word "Talmud", when used without qualification, usually refers to the Babylonian Talmud.
Variant: A translation of a similar passage in The Babylonian Talmud reads in a way that does not necessarily have so universal an interpretation: Whoever destroys a soul from Israel, the Scripture considers it as if he destroyed an entire world.
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 Talmud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Considered from the standpoint of typography alone, the printed page of the Talmud is an amazingly complex text with many intertextual connections representing fifteen centuries of discussion.
The text of the Talmud itself is in the middle, written in square Hebrew letters.
Here is the first page of the first printed edition of the Jerusalem Talmud, printed 1523 in Venice, by Jacob M. Lowy (Collection, National Library of Canada).
ccat.sas.upenn.edu /rs/2/Judaism/talmud.html   (247 words)

  
 Question 3.15: What is the Talmud?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The Talmud is sometimes referred to as the Shas.
Traditionally, the Talmud is the supreme sourcebook of Law, as it takes the rules listed in the Torah and describes how to apply them to different circumstances.
This material is used as part of the research into the application of Torah law, but the research also includes study of the larger context of the time, and the parallels to other co-existant societies.
www.faqs.org /faqs/judaism/FAQ/03-Torah-Halacha/section-16.html   (592 words)

  
 S.C.J. FAQ: Section 3.16. Torah: What is Talmud Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Talmud)?
The Talmud Yerushalmi, also known as the Jerusalem Talmud (JT), the Palestinian Talmud, Talmud Eretz Yisrael (Talmud of the Land of Israel) and Gemara de Eretz Yisrael, is the Mishna plus the Yerushalmi gemara.
Additionally, the name 'Jerusalem Talmud' is a misnomer; it was most likely written in Northern Israel, specifically Tiberias.
If you would like to be part of the group to which the maintainer directs questions, please drop a note to the FAQ maintainer at maintainer@scjfaq.org.
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 Saul Lieberman
He studied talmudic philology and Greek language and literature at the Hebrew University, where he was appointed lecturer in Talmud in 1931.
Combining vast erudition in all fields of talmudic and rabbinic literature with a penetrating knowledge of the classical world, Lieberman opened new pathways to the understanding of the life, institutions, beliefs, and literary products of Jewish Palestine in the talmudic period.
The latter combined philological research and historical observations with a discussion of the entire talmudic and rabbinic literature in which the relevant Tosefta text is either commented upon or quoted.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/biography/slieberman.html   (1442 words)

  
 Talmud Unmasked Part One
Lest I be accused of using a corrupted text of the Talmud or of not having interpreted it correctly, as is generally the case with those who have attempted to disclose secret Jewish teachings, I have placed the Hebrew text opposite the Latin.
What Christians have thought of the Talmud is amply proved by the many edicts and decrees issued about it, by which the supreme rulers in Church and State proscribed it many times and condemned this sacred Secondary Law Code of the Jews to the flames.
The Talmud teaches that Jesus Christ was illegitimate and was conceived during menstruation; that he had the soul of Esau; that he was a fool, a conjurer, a seducer; that he was crucified, buried in hell and set up as an idol ever since by his followers.
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 Talmud/Mishna/Gemara
The Mishna and the rabbinic discussions (known as the Gemara) comprise the Talmud, although in Jewish life the terms Gemara and Talmud usually are used interchangeably.
Among religious Jews, talmudic scholars are regarded with the same awe and respect with which secular society regards Nobel laureates.
Yet throughout Jewish history, study of the Mishna and Talmud was hardly restricted to an intellectual elite.
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 Talmudic Works
The Jerusalem Talmud was redacted in the year 350 C.E. by Rav Muna and Rav Yossi in Israel.
The Babylonian Talmud was redacted in the year 500 C.E. by Ravina and Rav Ashi, two leaders of the Babylonian Jewish community.
The language of the Talmud is Aramaic, in Hebrew script.
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 Jesus in the Rabbinic Traditions
The Talmud is an extensive compilation of Jewish commentary and is divided into the Mishnah and Gemara.
The first is known as Talmud Yerushalmi or the Talmud of Jerusalem, compiled around AD 400.
The Talmud essentially affirms the New Testament teaching on the life and person of Jesus Christ, God's unique Son and Savior of the world.
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 Arutz Sheva - Israel National News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 73rd and final volume of a complete English translation of the entire Talmud is being published this month by Mesorah; it is known as the Schottenstein Artscroll edition.
Currently nearing the end of its seventh round, this shorter Talmud is also studied around the world in rounds that take only 4.5 years.
Interest in studying the Jerusalem Talmud is on the upswing in Israel, and a new edition of the tractate of Taanit was recently published by the Institute for Study of the Yerushalmi of the Harry Fischel-Ariel Institute in Jerusalem.
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Instead, the Mishnaic law was left largely unchanged, and the Talmudic commentary was used to interpret the law as needed, though even then the main principle was consistency with Mishnah and Torah and so the Talmud was likewise remarkably conservative.
The Jerusalem Talmud also repeats this Mishnah law, and likewise cites similar Biblical authority, noting that the Mishnah law is "in line with that which David says, 'sweep me not away with sinners, nor my life with bloodthirsty men'.
Indeed, Talmudic interpretation held that the mere fact of a disgraceful death, and the stain of wickedness it entailed, required burial in a special graveyard, since the corpse could only be placed next to others of like indignity--as noted above, this was the purpose of having two graveyards reserved for different kinds of criminals.
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 ArtScroll.com -- Schottenstein Edition Talmud Yerushalmi - Tractate Berachos vol. 1
For five generations of the Talmudic era, the great Sages of the Land of Israel flourished in the Galil.
But while the Sages of Babylonia had another 150 years to redact, clarify and organize the text of the Babylonian Talmud, Roman persecution in the Holy Land made that impossible.
Thus, the Jerusalem Talmud is exceedingly difficult, and — despite its great significance — it has been a closed book to all but select, elite scholars.
www.artscroll.com /Books/ybr1.html   (283 words)

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