Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of the writers or compilers of the Talmud.
- noun One who accepts the doctrines and teachings of the Talmud.
- noun One who is versed in the Talmud and in literature relating to it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
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- noun One versed in the
Talmud . - noun One who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Here is what Maimonides, the great philosopher, physician, and Talmudist, had to say in his famous book, The Guide of the Perplexed, written in 1160:
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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Here is what Maimonides, the great philosopher, physician, and Talmudist, had to say in his famous book, The Guide of the Perplexed, written in 1160:
Miriam Pollack: Circumcision: Identity, Gender And Power Miriam Pollack 2011
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The Talmudist in your veins, the prophet in your eyes, the poet in your lungs.
Bradley Burston: American Jews Without Israel, Israel Without U.S. Jews 2010
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In Kalich's Yiddish film Ost und West (1923) [East and West, also known as Mizrech un Mayrev], Picon is an American girl who, when not disguised as a Hasidic boy, mistakenly marries a Talmudist, played by Kalich, eventually happily secularized.
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In Jacob Kalich's film Ost und West (1923), Molly Picon played an American girl who, when not disguised as a hasidic boy, mistakenly marries a Talmudist, played by Kalich, eventually happily secularized.
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"The professor [Snyder] made an innocent statement and he quoted the Talmud correctly," says Rabbi Aaron Soloveichik, a noted Talmudist and dean of Brisk Rabbinical College in Chicago.
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"If we can dismiss as 'unhistorical' most of the Gospels 'Jesus of Christianity, what can we of faithful Israel save of our rabbi, Moses, for Judaism?" asks Rabbi Jacob Neusner, a distinguished Talmudist at the University of South Florida in Tampa.
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And ask a Talmudist what ails the modesty of his marginal
Areopagitica 2007
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And ask a Talmudist what ails the modesty of his marginal
Areopagitica 2007
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The Talmudist would say, he came to the bed of the dead: which indeed is the same, 2
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
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