The Mishna in Tractate Yadayim (3:5) deals with the question of what Jewish texts are included in the Jewish Biblical canon. To preserve the sanctity of scripture, the rabbis made a rule that ...

This gives a sense of pleasantness not only in the end, but also in the means. The Mishna in Demai states that there are types of produce which require Ma’aser Demai even outside the Land of Israel.

Our Mishna and Gemara now deal with the amount of lashes administered to one who is found guilty of an infraction that warrants such punishment. The Torah, in Parshas Ki Teitzei (Devarim 25:3 ...

For years, Rabbi Aryeh A. Frimer “devoured” commentaries on the Haggadah. Now he is presenting his own Haggadah, with commentaries culled from copious notes he has taken over the years. In ...

(12:15). The first mishna of tractate “Pesach” (Passover) opens with this command: “At twilight of the 14th day of [the month of] Nisan, we search for leaven by the light of the lamp.” ...

7:20 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends: 8:23 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Sabbath Ends Rabbenu Tam: 8:52 p.m. NYC E.D.T. Earliest time for Tallis and Tefillin: 5:19 a.m. NYC Sunrise 6: ...

The Talmud features a mix of biblical verses, Mishna chapters, and other stories and commentaries. “Unfortunately, no original manuscript of the Talmud from the time of its compilation has ...

Before eating the sandwich she brought from home, she would go to do netilat yadayim. She wasn’t embarrassed to be a religious Jew in front of the other girls. Unlike many other members of Bnei ...

The oral law, also called the Mishna when it was compiled and written down around 200 CE, expanded on the laws that were ambiguous in the Torah. The Talmud is a commentary on the Mishna and ...

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