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Giving up ones life על קידוש ה׳ not to transgress גילוי עריות
Probably the most famous story about a group that gave up their lives instead of doing Gilui Arayot is the story about 400 boys and girls that gave up their lives, as brought down in the Talmud Gittin ...
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Does the Talmud say that Jesus writhes in excrement and Mary was a prostitute?
I would say "maybe" or "it depends" to both.
In Gittin 56b-57a there's a story in which Onkelos bar Kalonikos, the nephew of Titus, wishes to convert to Judaism, but before that, ...
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Any known translations of the Talmudim et al into classical languages, prior to the 19th century?
Most if not all of the translations below include detailed notes that cite many other Rabbinical works.
(It must be noted that the purposes of the translations and commentaries listed below varied ...
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Why is Talmud Bavli studied more than Yerushalmi?
In their introduction to Yerushalmi Brachot, artscroll adress this question and write that Bavli is better edited, more complete, better commented, easier to understand and less prone to alternative ...
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Are there references to Jesus in the Jerusalem Talmud?
Firstly, Mr. J. wasn't only referred to by his name, he had other names that referenced him (see Jastrow, Wiki, Jewish Wiki). Thus, only searching his name will not always yield results. Secondly, the ...
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What are the specifics of the fake Yerushalmi story?
https://www.yerushalmionline.org/articles/yerushalmi_on_kodshim.pdf Rabbi Yosef Gavriel Bechhofer's terrific article about it.
It was the Yerushalmi on all of Seder Kodshim.
Rabbi Yosef Rosen of ...
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Is there more than one text of the Mishnah?
Yes, there are several mishna traditions. The Wikipedia article has the gist: there are the Mishnah-only manuscripts, Talmud Yerushalmi manuscripts, and Talmud Bavli manuscripts. The first two are ...
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Responses to the Chacham and Tam
Menachem Ben Yashar provides a fascinating answer here, very summarized as follows:
The Yerushalmi's version was written during the time of the Beis Hamikdash, and thus, there was a real Halachic ...
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Rashi quoting Yerushalmi on Kodshim
Artscroll [Teumrah 6b footnote 12 the last paragraph] quotes a Doros HaRishonim who conjectures, that ..
"in the case of Temurah, there existed two types of manuscripts, those
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Quadrant based layout for the Yerushalmi
The reference is to the pages of the Venice printing of the Talmud Yerushalmi (5283/1523). Each folio is divided into four columns, two on each side of the page, and these are the numbers of the amud (...
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Were all future Torah innovations taught to Moshe at Har Sinai?
This is addressed by R. David Luria in his commentary to the statement in Pirkei D'Rabbi Eliezer. He notes that it appears to be contradictory to the statement about all future Torah being already ...
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What happened in R' Chananya's penthouse (18 Dvarim)?
According to this article:
The Korban HaEida explains that the students of Shamai stood outside the house and prevented most of the students of Hillel from entering in order to sway the halacha.
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Longest to Shortest tractates of Yerushalmi by daf
Here's the list of the longest to shortest Masechtot in the Talmud Yerushalmi based off the amount of daf per Masechta. (Source: Sefaria, which uses the text of Mechon Mamre, which is based on the ...
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Source of opinion that Talmud Yerushalmi was corrupted by Karaites
B"H, I believe I've discovered who is being referred to here.
First of all, as I mentioned in the comments, this quote is not from the Chida but from R' Menachem Mendel Krengel, who published a ...
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Source for saying Parshas Hamon?
The oldest source I found was the Sefer haManhig (Shabbat 44) by R' Avraham ben Nathan:
בסוף יומא ירושלמי – כל האומר פרשת המן בכל יום, מובטח לו, שאין מזונותיו נחסרין.
At the end of Yerushalmi Yoma [...
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Zohar vs. Yerushalmi
In the discussion of the correct procedure for cutting the bread at the Shabbat meal, R. Joel Sirkes writes (Bayit Chadash O.C. siman 274) the following:
דאין עוברין על דין התלמוד מפני שהוא כך על ...
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Marriage: get out of jail free card?
Apirion L'Shlomo brings the following in the name of the Imrei Emes.
Rashi in Parshas Tazriah says that a Chasan that sees Tzora'as we wait until after the seven days of Simcha end before going to ...
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Why Did Talmud Bavli decide to differ from Talmud Yerushalmi by starting on page 2?
There were no standards of printing. They were developed by different printers in different countries, etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were no numbers at all on original manuscripts. The Torah ...
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Responses to the Chacham and Tam
Rabbi Joshua ben Levi said, “Whoever teaches his grandson Torah is regarded as if he had received the Torah from Mount Sinai as it is said, ‘Teach your children and children’s children,’ and then it ...
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Chapters of Tanach present in Talmud Yerushalmi
Major caveat: mechon-mamre's edition of Yerushalmi on Nezikin and on doesn't include the parentheses to indicate a biblical citation. So my scripts didn't "see" any citations there.
(Fun fact: as it ...
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Why is there no tayku in the Jerusalem Talmud?
Rashi in Bava Metzia 85a explains why Rabbi Zeira fasted for 100 days in order to forget the Babylonian method of learning so that he could be a receptacle for the Talmud Yerushalmi with a clear mind:
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Yerushalmi Horoyos in Shas Vilna
Okay, so a little bit of digging reveals that the main reason the Yerushalmi was put there was because of the commentary at the bottom of the page, simply titled "פירוש". This commentary is ...
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Why is Talmud Bavli studied more than Yerushalmi?
The simple reason is because the halacha often follows the Bavli! It seems more practical to have a student in yeshiva to study something more applicable than something that doesn't apply.
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Trying to Understand the Riddle of Bar Kappara
First of all, here is Artscroll’s translation of the incident. Bracketed words in my formatting are equivalent to their non-bold words; non-bracketed words are equivalent to bolded words. All other ...
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Why no Yerushalmi on the end of Shabbat?
It seems over the years the Yerushalmi wasn’t learned too much. So some stuff got lost, and when it came time to print they literally just didn’t have the material. (That’s my own take on it)
Most of ...
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Why the Jerusalem Talmud is not mentioned in the Bavli?
The premise of your question may be inaccurate. The Mishnah was also a ‘book’, however, it is basically just quoted as teachings. So too the Yerushalmi, there are countless examples of parallel ...
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Why is it that when rishonim quote Talmud Yerushalmi they don't quote the daf?
Nowadays, the Talmud Bavli normally uses the printed edition of the Vilna Shas. Those who write translations or extra commentaries, will use the Vilna Shas pagination in order to keep the references ...
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Source of a quote about the value of mitzvot involving pain
It's an Avos D'Reb Nosson 3:6:
ישמעאל ברבי יוסי אומר, אם למדת תורה בילדותך, אל תאמר איני לומד בזקנותי. אלא למוד תורה, כי אינך יודע איזה יכשר. אם למדת תורה בשעת העושר, אל תשוב לך בשעת העוני. אם למדת ...
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Reason for dispute if chilazon has a melacha of trapping
See the Korban HaEida there who suggests that that opinion means to say that trapping is never a melacha on Shabbos. The reason it is said in the context of chilazon is to prove that trapping was ...
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Why were angels' names brought back?
You ask a fantastic question!
The book Sichas Malachei Hashores was written by Rav Tzadok HaKohen of Lublin, where he expounds sources in the Bavli, Midrash, Zohar, and Yerushalmi pertaining to the ...
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