Questions tagged [talmud-yerushalmi]
A counterpart to the Talmud Bavli that was created in Eretz Yisrael
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Rashi quoting Yerushalmi on Kodshim
I haven't learned Seder Kodshim before, and I understand there's no Talmud Yerushalmi on Seder Kodshim, but I saw in a bunch of places in maseches Temurah where Rashi quotes "loshon Yerushalmi" (...
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Longest to Shortest tractates of Yerushalmi by daf [closed]
A follow on from this question: I simply would like a listing of longest to shortest (or vice versa!) tractates in Yerushalmi by daf, ideally listing the number of daf/tractate.
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Is there any responsa from the early 1900's discussing how it was proven that the Yerushalmi Kodshim was fake?
Quick background (link):
In 1907–1909, Shlomo Yehuda Algazi-Friedländer, a mysterious
man from the town of Szatmár in Transylvania, published what
he claimed to be the long-lost tractates of ...
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Source of a quote about the value of mitzvot involving pain
This quote is attributed to the Yerushalmi:
One mitzvah involving pain is worth a hundred mitzvot that do not.
Do you have the exact reference? Is this the only place this thought is expressed?
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Which enemies was Rav Huna running away from?
Yerushalmi, Pesachim 1.1:
דאמר רב הונא כד הוינן ערקין באילין בוטיתא דסדרא רבה היו מדליקין עלינו
נרות בשעה שהיו כיהים היינו יודעין שהוא יום ובשעה שהיו מבהיקין היינו
יודעין שהוא לילה
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Chapters of Tanach present in Talmud Yerushalmi
Chapters of Tanach present in Talmud Bavli asks:
I heard there is a style of Talmud study somewhere, where as a verse presents itself in the Talmud, the student would learn the entire chapter from תנ״...
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The application of the dispute about the borders of Babylon
The Talmud (Kiddushin 71b) discusses the differences in the lineage of people from different places in the vicinity of Bavel (Babylon) by analogy of health. Bavel is healthy (has a good lineage), ...
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Who was a סרקייא?
Throughout Talmud Yerushalmi, there are references to סרקייא. The translation I am using translates it "Saracen," but that seems anachronistic. One reference in Bava Metzia indicates it is a non-...
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Why is it that when rishonim quote Talmud Yerushalmi they don't quote the daf?
Why is it that when rishonim quote from the Talmud Yerushalmi they don't quote the daf?
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Did Amoraim in Bavel study or know of the Talmud Yerushalmi?
The Talmud Yerushalmi was completed while the Amoraim in Bavel were still debating and discussing halachos that would be recorded later on the Talmud Bavli. I'd like to know if we can know or assume ...
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Are there references to Jesus in the Jerusalem Talmud?
In my online search I have not come across any references to Jesus in the Talmud Yerushalmi. I realize in the Bavli sometimes he is not identified by name or passages are censored/removed. I would ...
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What happened in R' Chananya's penthouse (18 Dvarim)?
Speaking of Beyt Shamai, Yerushalmi Shabbat 9a also here:
Background:
"ואלו הן ההלכות שאמרו בעליית חנניה בן חזקיה בן גרון
שעלו לבקרו ונמנו ורבו ב"ש על ב"ה
ושמנה עשר דברים גזרו בו ביום:"
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Why the Jerusalem Talmud is not mentioned in the Bavli?
The JT was compiled some 150-200 years before the Bavli (WIKI), so the most of the disputes in the Bavli took place when the JT was already finished.
The Rabbis (Tannayim and Amorayim) traveled all ...
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Can the Midrash be included in "Talmud Yerushalmi"
When saying or writing "Talmud Yerushalmi" can this include (or refer to) the Midrash
For example.
In the Tanya (Chabad) chapter 37 it says
ובכל תלמוד ירושלמי היא נקראת בשם מצוה סתם
But it was ...
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Why no Yerushalmi on the end of Shabbat?
Any ideas why the last 4 chapters of Shabbat have no Yerushalmi?
Only the Mishnayot are printed, with no Gemara.
By comparison, the last 4 chapters of Shabbat in the Bavli stretch over 15 Daf.
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Why Did Talmud Bavli decide to differ from Talmud Yerushalmi by starting on page 2?
Follow up to Why does the gemarah start on daf bet?.
The accepted (and most voted) answer says:
The simple explanation is that this is how the printers typeset it
This sounds like this decision was ...
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Why is Talmud Bavli studied more than Yerushalmi?
I'm far from an expert on either Bavli or Yerushalmi. But, I'm curious as to why yeshivot (and, to an extent, even individual adults learning by themselves, chevruta or via shiurim) study Bavli far ...
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Were all future Torah innovations taught to Moshe at Har Sinai?
Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer Ch. 2-------פרקי דרבי אליעזר פרק ב
אמר לו, (רבי יוחנן לרבי אליעזר) אמשול לך משל למה הדבר דומה, למעין זה
שהוא נובע ומוציא מים, ויש בכוחו להוציא מים יותר ממה שהוא מכניס. כך
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Giving up ones life על קידוש ה׳ not to transgress גילוי עריות
Are there any instances in Shas (Bavli or Yerushalmi) or even records of history where a group or even an individual gave up their life not to transgress גילוי עריות, Adultery?
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Yerushalmi about davening with a Tzadik
Rav Hershel Schachter gave a shiur (on numerous topics on maseches berachos) explaining the machlokes between chassidim and litvaks concerning davening bzmano. He mentioned that the chassidim were ...
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Is there a special hadran on Yerushalmi?
Inspired by DoubleAA. Is there a special text one should say on finishing a Masechta in Yerushalmi?
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Why no manuscripts of Talmud survive in the Arab lands?
http://halakhah.com/talmud/nezikin_h.html:
...Munich manuscript which covers the whole Talmud and dates from the year 1334. Alas, that that is the only complete manuscript of the Talmud in ...
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How far must one suffer for Arba Kosos?
As discussed here, the Yerushalmi (Pesachim 10:1) notes that some Amoraim suffered tremendous headaches from drinking the Arba Kosos that lasted for weeks, if not months. (I'm not sure what the events ...
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Responses to the Chacham and Tam
In the Haggadah, the response to the Chacham is teaching him the halachos of Pesach, whereas the response to the Tam is that Hashem took us out of Mitzraim with a strong arm.
Yet, in the Yerushalmi, ...
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Trying to Understand the Riddle of Bar Kappara
Bar Kappara (possibly Eliezer haKappar, possibly his son Shimon) was a tanna who was known, within the Talmud, for his unusual antics and unchecked speech. In Nedarim 51a, he causes Rebbi to laugh out ...
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Source for Hashem standing up for a zaken
Yerushalmi, Bikkurim 3:3 (also, Y. Rosh Hashanah 1:3) says that Hashem stood up before a zaken for the first time:
רבי סימון אמר הקב”ה (ויקרא יט) מפני שיבה תקום והדרת פני זקן ויראת
מאלהיך אני ה’ ...
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Marriage: get out of jail free card?
The Yerushalmi (Bikkurim 3:3/11b) says that a chassan has his sins atoned for. This is derived from Esav, who married a woman, the daughter of Yishmael and sister of Navos, named Machalas (Bereishis ...
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Davening to change nature
In Mashcehes Brachos (Bavli) 60 the Gemara states that one should not pray that his unborn baby be a boy if it's after the time the baby has formed already in the womb. However, in Masheches Brachos ...
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Does Rav discourage study of Scripture?
I read the following on Yerushalmi Online:
Rav said: As soon as man goes forth from Halachic to Scripture study
he no longer has peace. And Shmuel said: It means one who leaves
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What is greater: nevua or ruach hakodesh?
What is greater: nevua or ruach hakodesh?
Which one is a higher level, prophecy or holy spirit?
In Yerushalmi Succa Perek 1 Halacha 5 we find Yona ben Amiti, a novi, went to simchas beis hashuava ...
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Does any Jewish group follow Yerushalmi only?
Does any Jewish group follow Yerushalmi over Bavli? Thank you.
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Is a bat kohen who has relations with a pasul (not marries) then forbidden from t'rumah?
Is a bat kohen who has relations with a pasul (not marries) then forbidden from t'rumah? I ask this because I'm having trouble understanding Noam Yerushalmi's explanation of Yerushalmi Yevamot 8:6 in ...
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what determines what parts of the talmud(if any) are in hebrew rather than aramaic?
I read in this question
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/226412/origins-of-turn-over-in-his-grave-turn-over-in-her-grave-etc-etc/226478?noredirect=1#comment576934_226478
That this line ...
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How did kinyan ketzatzah work?
The gemarah in Yerushalmi Kiddushin 1:5 discusses a kinyan ketzatzah whereby to acquire a field (and possibly to marry a woman?) after a sale a barrel of treats was broken and the children would ...
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Citing the Jerusalem Talmud and Mishna Torah [duplicate]
How would you write an academic citation (format agnostic) for the Jerusalem Talmud or the Mishna Torah? i.e. a specific quote from each. I'm specifically asking about these as there is no standard ...
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Quadrant based layout for the Yerushalmi
If one goes through the citations in the Milon Even Shoshan, one might see references to words from the Yerushalmi with attribution like this:
Please zoom in and look at the entry for pileish, on the ...
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Rambam's Hilchos HaYerushalmi
I am looking for Rambam's Hilchos HaYerushalmi (ed. Lieberman) (or a some other edition if it exists). Is it available for free online?
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Elihu (who helped Job) is Yitzhak?
In the Yerushalmi Sotah (5:8) it says that Elihu ben Berachel was Yitzhak Avinu, who was niftar according to my calculations 10 years before Yaacov + fam descended to Egypt, which was around 93-94 ...
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Why is talmud Yerushalmi in Aramaic
I assume that the Tanaaim and Amoraim in Eretz Yisrael spoke Hebrew, so why is the Talmud Yershalmi in Aramic not Hebrew?
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Are women inherently lazy, or was it a temporary state?
The Yerushalmi Pesachim 1:4, as understood by most Rishonim and brought in Halacha, says that women are lazy (and therefore would have been less trustworthy to properly perform the check for Chometz).
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Rabbi Shimon without any other qualifiers
When there is a "Rabbi Shimon" without giving his father's name or his town, who is it assumed to be? The specific example I'm looking at is in Yerushalmi Brachot Daf 25.-25:.
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Is the Maharshal's list of differences between Talmud Bavli and Talmud Yerushalmi complete?
I found here a book written by the Maharshal citing where pasukim are found in the Yerushalmi. In the end of this book, he cites a number of differences in halacha between the Bavli and the Yerushalmi....
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How Did David Slay His Evil Inclination?
The Jerusalem Talmud, Brachot 9:5, says that David could not deal with his evil inclination, so he killed it in his heart.
How does one understand this passage? How did David kill his evil ...
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Do any halachic sources address the question of making a siyum masechet on a tractate of Yerushalmi?
I don't see a reason why one couldn't make a siyum on a masechet of Yerushalmi but I was wondering if there are any halachic sources that discourage it or address this specific question.
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Who are the Kutim, and what happened to them?
In the Yerushalmi Pesachim on daf Bet amud Bet, it talks about the "Kutim" and how whenever they keep a mitzvah, they are more exacting/cautious about it than the Jews. Who are these Kutim, why does ...
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Is the Story About Members of Beis Shammai Killing Members of Beis Hillel True?
The Yerushalmi Talmud at Shabbos 1:4 has a mysterious passage speaking of a time when Beis Shammai literally violently out-dueled Beis Hillel:
Mishna: These are the laws they said in the attic of ...
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Why don't we say what the Yerushalmi says to say during Bircat Kohanim?
I've been studying the Talmud Yerushalmi Berachot, which lists what you should say during Bircat Kohanim:
אמר רבי הונא זה שרואה את הכהנים בבית הכנסת בברכה ראשונה צריך לומר ברכו את ה׳ מלאכיו בשנייה ...
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Are there any good commentaries on Yerushalmi?
There is no Rashi on Yerushalmi (Shekalim specifically), and (I find that) the Gemara doesn't really explain itself as well as Bavli.
What are good free (hebrewbooks.org) running commentaries on ...
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One Shabbos or two?
Yerushalmi Taanis 1:1 says:
א"ר לוי אילו היו ישראל משמרין שבת אחת כתיקנה מיד היה בן דוד בא
R. Levi said: If Israel kept one Shabbos correctly, the son of David would immediately come.
But Bavli ...
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Rambam on Planting non-fruit trees on Shemita
The Yerushalmi in Sheviit 4:4 says:
וכן היה רשב״ג אומר נוטעין אילן סרק בשביעית
So too Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel would say - one may plant non-fruit trees on the seventh
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