Amoraim

Rashi is invaluable because his notes to the Written Torah bring the understanding of the Tannaim and Amoraim.

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The Oral Torah is extensively discussed and expounded by the Tannaim and the Amoraim in Medrash and in the Talmud.

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The Amoraim of Erez Israel vigorously opposed going to the Roman theater, an idolatrous venue, and the unbridled and licentious behavior that was rampant in the mixed cities.

Ruth: Midrash and Aggadah. 2009

Amoraim could not dispute tannaitic rulings without tannaitic support but they created fences around the Torah to prevent inadvertent sins.

Female Purity (Niddah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

Only a cursory overview of the post-Second Temple materials Tannaim and Amoraim.

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We do not have the privilege of making it up as we go along based merely on what each Jew deems right in his own eyes, in contravention to the Tannaim, Amoraim, and Poskim.

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It was forbidden to write even prayer-books Shabbos 115 B, and there is no mention of a written Mishnah or Talmud until the days of the Rabbanan Savorai, after the last of the Amoraim.

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In any case the work in its present form contains a large number of the doctrines and utterances of later rabbinical teachers (the Amoraim), and it was not edited until the late Talmudic period.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

To speak of the Haggadah of the Tannaim and Amoraim is as far from fact as to speak of the legends of Shakespeare and Scott.

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1 Louis Ginzberg 1913

It was reserved for later days, however, for Talmudic times, the golden age of the great scholars, the Tannaim and the Amoraim, to enjoy Elijah's special vigilance as protector of the innocent, as a friend in need, who hovers over the just and the pious, ever present to guard them against evil or snatch them out of danger.

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4 Louis Ginzberg 1913