Article: The Talmudic doctrine of "The Benefit of a Pleasure": psychological well-being in Talmudic literature.(Roman A. Ohrenstein'S Contributions)(Essay)

Article: Take a leaf from the Talmud
Jerusalem Post;  November 24, 2000 ;     652 words ... ... Headline: Take a leaf from the Talmud Byline: David Brauner Edition ... dating from the 16th century BCE, contains some 877 plant ... mentions about 120 plants, and the Talmud introduces another 400, frequently ... quotation or two from the Bible or Talmud. Each specimen is accompanied ...

Article: A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and ...
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2006 ;     522 words ...1565638603 A dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic literature. (reprint ... the Mishaic, go back to the first if not the second century BCE, and may be considered a continuation of the Biblical Hebrew ...

Article: Talmud
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa;      700+ words ...TALMUD The Jewish teachings of the sages. The Pentateuch (Torah ... al peh) was written down and formed the basis of the Talmud. While torah refers only to the written law and talmud to the oral law, both terms essentially carry the same ...

Article: The Talmud
Jerusalem Post;  December 9, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Jerusalem Post 12-09-2005 Headline: The Talmud Byline: BEREL WEIN Edition; Up Front ... its simplest form of definition, the Talmud is the record of centuries of discussion ... HaNassi in Tzipori in the Galilee. The Talmud was developed in two separate works ...

Talmud.
The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.;  January 1, 2000 ;     693 words ...Talmud [Aramaic from Heb.,=learning], in ... to the Scriptures or Written Laws. The Talmud is the accepted authority for Orthodox Jews ... produced Talmuds, known respectively as the Talmud Yerushalmi (compiled c.5th cent. A ...

Transcript: Studying Talmud
Weekend Saturday (NPR);  October 11, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... world today, Jews are reading from the Talmud, that mammoth text of Jewish law for nearly 2,000 years. The Talmud has been called Judaism's encyclopedia ... credited with starting the practice of daily Talmud study in 1923. That practice has not ...

Article: The Talmud: the Steinsaltz Edition, a Reference Guide.
The Nation;  April 30, 1990 ;     700+ words ... ... Random House has chosen to call this The Talmud- The Steinsaltz Edition. The Israeli edition is called The Babylonian Talmud, which is its correct name, and Steinsaltz ... Berman, who worked from the original Talmud. The inaugural volume consists of ...