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According to the search engine in Genizah, neither עכו"ם nor עובד כוכבים nor עבודת כוכבים appear in the Munich edition. It seems it first appeared in the Vilna Edition, though עכו"ם appears once in th …

The design is from the gate-page (also known as Daf Shaar or Shaar Blatt) of the Romm Press's famous Shas Vilna: (From an original Vilna Brachot. Source) The design is sometimes simply known as "the …

I recommend studying the entire tractate. The majority of it does, in fact, discuss actual idolatry. For example: MISHNA: And these are the festivals of gentiles: Kalenda, Saturnalia, and Kratesis, a …

Based on things I read recently, I think I can now expound on what I wrote in the comments last year. I'll explain what I believe the mishna in Sotah 3:4 means, which from I gathered, is easily misund …

According to note 13 in this essay, it is more likely that what Rabbi Yirmiyah said "Since the Torah was already given at Mount Sinai, we do not regard a Divine Voice" is kind of like a Talmudic footn …

A list of angels that appear in the Talmud, Midrash and Zohar (AKA Chazalic literature) was compiled by Rabbi Reuven Margolies in his book Mal'achei Elyon, which can be viewed (with payement) on Otzar …

Rabbi Shlomo Weitzen explains: "בנוגע למה שכתוב שחסידות גדולה מכולם אין הכוונה שחסידות היא מדרגה רוחנית של התחנה הסופית. הכוונה היא במבחינת עבודת ה' ומבחינת שינוי העולם והבאתו למצב המתוקן העתידי שלו …

The Maharsha on Makkot 23b, D"H Taryag writes: "...ואמר בזה דנמנו וגמרו ר"ל שבאו בזה למנין המצות שהלאוין הם יותר מהעשיים וע"כ הסכימו וגמרו לומר שלא נברא האדם בשביל עצמו ויותר היה טוב לו שלא נברא כי ה …

I found this book yesterday in my yeshiva's library. It seems like an interesting book. In any case, the book describes his technique at length, but there's one specific chapter called "סדר הלימוד בקי …

Hi and welcome to Mi Yodeya! In this case it's Rabbi Yochanan bar Napacha, and the way to tell is simple: Rabbi Yochanan speaks here in the name of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, who lived a few generations …

As @DoubleAA wrote in the comments, it's from the gemara in Sanhedrin. The same quote appears in two places in the gemara: Sanhedrin 98b and 99a: "ר' הילל אומר אין להם משיח לישראל שכבר אכלוהו בימי חז …

Why is Reish Lakish sometimes called in the Gemara "Reish Lakish" and sometimes "Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish"? Why not just use one title?

Presumably the argument between Rabbi Zechariah ben Avkulas and the other sages over what to do with Bar Kamtza's korban. It sounds like they were arguing right there in the Mikdash.

The idea comes from the following passage in Shabbat 31a: "There was another incident involving one gentile who came before Shammai and said to Shammai: Convert me on condition that you teach me the …

Presumably, it would be possible. In two of the three versions of Seder Olam Zutta brought by Neubauer (Version A, Version B), along the names of each Reish Galuta it says some of the sages who were a …