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4 unusual facts about Rabbinic literature


Abu Isa

He made some minor alterations to the general set of Rabbinic laws and his followers became ascetic in their manners.

Byzantine calendar

In addition, the traditional Jewish understanding of the creation "days" of Genesis is that they are literal as well, as virtually all the Rabbis have understood in commentaries from Talmudic, Midrashic and Rabbinic sources.

Cronaca del luogo

The libretto was compiled by his wife, Talia Pecker Berio, incorporating excerpts from the Rabbinic literature and the poetry of Paul Celan and Marina Tsvetayeva.

Severus Scroll

A very few sentences of it have been preserved by Rabbinic literature.


David ben Aryeh Leib

Rabbi David ben Aryeh Leib of Lida (c.1650-1696) wrote works of rabbinic literature, including Sefer Shomer Shabbat and books on the 613 Mitzvot, bris milah, the Shulchan Aruch, the Book of Ruth, and Jewish ethics (Divrei David, 1671).

Jacob Marcaria

The press was licenced under Joseph Ottolengo, a German rabbi to whom Cardinal Cristoforo Madruzzo had granted the privilege of printing Hebrew books.


see also

Neil Danzig

Rabbi Neil Danzig (הרב נחמן דנציג) (born December 3, 1950); a native of Brooklyn, NY, currently residing in Teaneck, New Jersey; is a professor of Talmud and rabbinic literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary.

Sons of Zadok

Rabbinic literature indicates that there were numerous priestly families of Zadokite lineage - amongst them David HaKohain Bar Isha, who upon the Spanish expulsion in 1492, emigrated to the town of Debdou in Morocco - a town purported to have consisted of a large population of Jewish priests.

Sources for the historicity of Jesus

Peter Schäfer states that there can be no doubt that the narrative of the execution of Jesus in the Talmud refers to Jesus of Nazareth, but states that the rabbinic literature in question are not Tannaitic but from a later Amoraic period and may have drawn on the Christian gospels, and may have been written as responses to them.