by hadassah | Mar 8, 2026 | Talmud and Daily Life
Mishnah Hullin 1-1-2- Laws of Ritual Slaughter The laws of Kosher slaughter must be performed by or under the supervision of a competent person. The knife must be smooth so as to spare the animal pain. 1:1 All may slaughter and what they slaughter is valid,...
by hadassah | Feb 18, 2026 | Talmud and Daily Life
Mishnah Qiddushin 1-7- The Obligation of the Commandments Mishnah Qiddushin specifies the difference in obligations imposed by talmudic law upon women and men. [Concerning] all the commandments regarding a son which are obligatory on the father, men are...
by hadassah | Feb 18, 2026 | Talmud and Daily Life
Mishnah Berakhot 6-1-4- The Blessing Over Food Benedictions before food were required by the Rabbis who considered it to be sacrilege to partake of God’s creation without first offering thanks. 6:1 How do we bless over fruits? Over the fruit of trees one says,...
by hadassah | Feb 9, 2026 | Talmud and Daily Life
Isaiah M. Gafni. “The World of the Talmud- From the Mishnah to the Arab Conquest.” Part III. Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism- a Parallel History of their Origins and Early Development. Ed. Hershal Shanks. Washington D.C.- Biblical Archaeology Society, 1993. ...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2025 | The Talmud
Targum Jonathan to Judges 5- An Aggadic Translation The Targum to Prophets was composed, according to talmudic tradition, by the tanna Jonathan ben Uziel (first century B.C.E.–first century C.E.). He was likely the author of an early translation which appears...
by hadassah | Dec 10, 2025 | The Talmud
Targum to Exodus 20-1-14- The Ten Commandments The reading of the Torah was accompanied by the oral translation of the text into Aramaic, the vernacular of most Jews in Byzantine Palestine and Sassanian Babylonia. With time, fixed targumic texts grew up which...
