Questions tagged [talmud-bavli]
The Talmud is a commentary on the Mishna (the oral law) written in Babylonia containing discourses of Amoraim spanning the 3th-5th century
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Does anyone know where i can find a gemara menukad that isnt 13” i would like something more condensed like a 6 volume 10” with the vowels
I've been searching all over for a gemara set with the vowels in a small size. All I see are the 13” ones over many volumes.
Does any one know of 6-volume fully vowelized set? Or would that have to be ...
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Maror - bitter or sweet?
The Gemara (Pesachim 115b) says that if one swallowed the Maror, he is not Yotze, being that one must taste the bitterness.
Question: it says in the Yerushalmi (Pesachim 2:5) that Chazeret is ...
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Pronunciation of Vav prefix in Talmud Bavli
In Tanakh, according to our mesorah from the Tiberian Masorites, a וְ prefix before a Shva or a bilabial letter is pronounced as וּ [wu].
However, the Babylonian Masorites had these cases as וִ [wi], ...
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Are non-Jews who are converting to Judaism allowed to read the Talmud?
A general question, I’ve been curious about. Are non-Jews who are converting to Judaism allowed to read the Talmud?
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What is the source from the Gemara that you should kill a roidef before he comes to try to kill you [closed]
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I heard if a roidef is coming to try to kill you you should kill him first.
Where does it talk about this first in the Gemara and Halacha?
How does Halacha define a roidef?
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Will the real Shas Kattan please stand up
There is an old tradition commonly referenced in the yeshiva community that Masekhet Ketubot is the "Shas Kattan" of Talmud Bavli, that is, it contains ideas that connect to just about every ...
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Gezel do indeed encounter an ocasion with bitlu
Shavua tov! On Makkos טז. on the end of the amud, the guemara asks if just the in shiliach haken and ones we encounter “bitlu ve lo bitlu”. And suggests gezel and mashcuno and pea. Gezel, it finishes ...
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Is it stealing to eavesdrop? [duplicate]
According to bYoma 35b Hillel was denied entrance to a Beit Midrash which required students to pay for admission. Hillel instead climbed to the skylight and listened to the discussion for free. I ...
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Seeking a cross reference between the Jerusalem and Babylonian Talmuds
The Bavli and Yerushalmi overlap in content (to a large extent), but the pagination of the overlapping content differs.
I am seeking a reference work that shows on what page(s) given topics in one ...
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Gemoro says contents of a verse must be reversed to understand it. So why did the Torah write it 'backwards'?
The Gemoro quotes Devorim 12 (17)
לֹֽא־תוּכַ֞ל לֶאֱכֹ֣ל בִּשְׁעָרֶ֗יךָ מַעְשַׂ֤ר דְּגָֽנְךָ֙
וְתִירֹֽשְׁךָ֣ וְיִצְהָרֶ֔ךָ וּבְכֹרֹ֥ת בְּקָרְךָ֖ וְצֹאנֶ֑ךָ
וְכׇל־נְדָרֶ֙יךָ֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּדֹּ֔ר ...
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What is the date of the Babylonian Talmud and how is it dated?
A related question once appeared asking about how the Talmud (and related texts) are dated: when were the mishnah, talmud, and tosefta written?
But none of the answers given to it actually explained ...
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Talmud Yerushalmi vs Bavli
We all know that only a Sanhedrin can vote conclusively on a halakha for the entire nation. Since the Sanhedrin was dismantled, the next best option was to listening to the hachamim of your locale. ...
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The search for invariants
In an interview, French Jewish intellectual Jacques Attali claimed that modern science is partly based on Jewish tradition because like talmudic discussions, it is based on the "search for ...
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Is it "שמן המור", or is it "אנפקינון"?
In Megilah 13a we bring down a פסוק which talks about what the woman did before going to אחשוורוש to try + become king:
"For six months, they anointed themselves with "שמן המור"
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How did the whole world know about אסתר's beauty?
In Megilah 13a it says all the nations of the world knew that אסתר was beautiful?
How did they even know who אסתר is? Let alone, her beauty!
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