The Palestinian Talmud on Education in the Synagogue
y. Megillah 3:1, 73d
As R. Phineas said in the name of R. Hoshaiah: There were 480 synagogues in Jerusalem, each of which had a school and a Talmud study; [the school] for Bible and the Talmud study for Mishnah.
y. Horayot 2:5, 46c
WHAT IS THE POSITIVE COMMANDMENT ABOUT THE MENSTRUATING WOMAN? R. Abin said: Keep the children of Israel away from their impurities (Leviticus 15:31). R. Jonathan sent to ask R. Simeon ben R. Yosi bar Lakonia: From where [does a] a warning for one having sex with an impure woman [come]? He wanted to throw a stone after him; he told him: You are asking me something that children recite every day in the synagogue.
Translated by Heinrich W. Guggenheimer.
Notes
Words in brackets appear in the original translation.
Credits
Reprinted from The Jerusalem Talmud, ed. and trans. Heinrich W. Guggenheimer (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1999–2015), https://www.sefaria.org/texts/Talmud/Yerushalmi. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.
Published in: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, vol. 2: Emerging Judaism.
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