Mishnaic

Instead of reciting the biblical narrative, though, the maggid is principally built up from Mishnaic texts.

Archive 2010-03-01 2010

Instead of reciting the biblical narrative, though, the maggid is principally built up from Mishnaic texts.

The Passover Haggadah 2010

However, her approach is mainly legalistic and although she refers to Mishnaic or Tannaitic law she does not deal at all with issues of social or philosophical analysis of rabbinic law.

Bet Hillel and Bet Shammai. 2009

A rabbinic text about niddah, distinct from the Talmudic and Mishnaic tractates, is mentioned in the works of various authors of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.

Baraita de-Niddah. 2009

The strictness of these rules may have remained relatively unchanged through the ages and seem to have been a source of divisiveness between the Jewish and Samaritan communities since Mishnaic times, perhaps because of Samaritan belief in secondary contamination (Mishnah Niddah 7: 3).

Samaritan Sect. 2009

The Mishnaic ritual contains stages of abasing and humiliating the woman in public and ends with her death in the Temple.

Sotah. 2009

The measure-for-measure principle underlying the Mishnaic commentary similarly depicts the ceremony as punishment rather than a test.

Sotah, Tractate. 2009

Though connected with the Biblical and Mishnaic festival, this was a completely original creation in which the entire kibbutz took part, creating an impression of genuine feeling.

Leah Bergstein. 2009

In Mishnaic and Talmudic times, there is no reference to battered women as a class.

Wifebeating in Jewish Tradition. 2009

Rav Yosef carefully explains the Ethiopian Jewish engagement and wedding ceremonies and asserts that their practice conforms to the Mishnaic description in Tractate Kiddushin (part of the Oral Law) of what constitutes proper Jewish betrothal.

Sigd: The Ultimate Zionist Festival 2009