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The Talmud makes note of Jesus' miracles. No attempt is made to deny them, but it ascribes them to magical arts from Egypt.
After stating that "Christians believe Jesus Christ is God," the student said the Talmud — a book considered to be central to ...
During the Lenten season of 2004 there was considerable fury over Mel Gibson's film The Passion of the Christ and its depiction of Jewish leaders conspiring to hand Jesus over to the Romans for ...
As Easter approaches, Christians around the world begin to focus on two of the central tenets of their faith: the death and resurrection of Jesus of Nazareth. Other charismatic Jewish teachers or ...
Using quotations from the Talmud, the central text of Rabbinic Judaism, Christiani argued that the pharisaic contemporaries of Jesus believed him to be the Messiah. Nachmanides responded that ...
Jesus’ saying, “As you did it not to one of the least of these, you did it not to me” (Matthew 25:45), possibly followed oral tradition expressed later in Tosefta Sh’vuot 3: “One who ...
The most famous of the women is Yalta, the most mentioned female character in the Talmud, according to Fine. In Yalta’s most famous appearance, she breaks 400 jugs of wine in response to a rabbi ...
The Talmud offers investment teachings that have passed the test of time, but where might bitcoin fit into one of its most iconic lessons? This is an opinion editorial by Konstantin Rabin, a ...
In late 2019, I came upon an article about Daf Yomi — the practice of reading a page of the Talmud every day over the course of seven and a half years — and decided to sign up for a daily ...
In “Feeding Women of the Talmud, Feeding Ourselves,” the recipe is paired with an essay about the wife of Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah, who is consulted by her husband about a significant decision.
The Talmud, the most important collection of authoritative writings on Jewish law apart from the Bible itself, notes that one who does not believe in resurrection has no share in the “Olam Haba ...