Haredi Remembrance Day ceremony at the Teddy Hall in Binyanei Ha’uma in Jerusalem. (photo credit: Chaim Tuito) Thousands gathered for the first-ever completion of the entire Talmud (Siyum HaShas ...

Some people are aware also that, while there is only one Mishnah, there are in fact two Talmuds, a Jerusalem Talmud and a Babylon Talmud, one comprising the Mishnah together with the discussions ...

According to the Jerusalem Talmud, the great sage Rabbi Akiva (who was murdered by the Romans shortly after the revolt) believed that the military leader could be the Messiah. “When Rabbi Akiva ...

Rabbi Akiba had apparently accepted the claim of one Shimon Bar Kokhba that he was the messiah who would, with God’s help, lead a military campaign to overthrow Roman rule (Jerusalem Talmud Ta ...

Rabbi Shlomo Avineris head of Yeshivat Ateret Yerushalayim. It seems that many people have forgotten the very first teaching of the Jerusalem Talmud: “One time, Rabbi Chiya the Great and Rabbi ...

Thousands gathered for the first-ever completion of the entire Talmud (Siyum HaShas) at a Haredi Remembrance Day ceremony at the Teddy Hall in Binyanei Ha’uma in Jerusalem on Tuesday, according to the ...

In 2020, Hadran, an organization for advancing Talmud study for women, hosted the first international Siyum HaShas for women in Jerusalem, a celebration of the last cycle’s completion.

The Jerusalem Talmud amplifies this last point and relates the story of Rabbi Akiva giving his wife a Jerusalem of Gold tiara. Rabbi Gamliel’s wife is reported to have complained to him ...

A dilapidated industrial site in the Czech Republic where German businessman Oskar Schindler saved 1,200 Jews during the ...