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He was known as a tannaim, a sage of the Torah, the first five books of the Jewish Bible.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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He was known as a tannaim, a sage of the Torah, the first five books of the Jewish Bible.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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He was known as a tannaim, a sage of the Torah, the first five books of the Jewish Bible.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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They were able to be mihaye mesim, but they all lived a life of kedusha and prishushus, U tannaim, Urishonim Uacharonim.
What do the GOP and Hareidim have in common? | Jewschool 2006
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However, I don't believe that all of the midrashim originated with tannaim.
DovBear 2010
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Babylonian amora] writing in the name of R. Isaac [one of the earliest known Babylonian tannaim, middle of the second century] who wrote that it was permissible to beat a Canaanite slave woman in one’s possession in order to prevent her from transgressing.
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Means for the theoretical study of the Halakah were also scant; both logic and exegesis—the two props of the Halakah—being differently conceived by the various ruling tannaim, and differently taught.
Hertzberg & Yoffie On The Future of Zionism | Jewschool 2003
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