Guide
The Talmuds
2nd–6th Centuries
By Carol Bakhos
Related Primary Sources
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Yerushalmi Kil’ayim
R. Simeon ben Lakish said: I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living (Psalm 116:9). But are not the lands of the living Tyre and its environs, Caesarea and its environs, [for] there…
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Yerushalmi Shevi‘it
[A vote was taken and it was stated:] Regarding the entire Torah, whence do we know that if a non-Jew orders a Jew to transgress any of the commandments written in the Torah except for idolatry…
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Yerushalmi Ḥagigah
R. Joshua b. Levi said [in reference to Deuteronomy 9:10: And the Lord gave me the two tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God, and upon them the exact words that the Lord has addressed to you…
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Yerushalmi Nedarim
R. Simeon ben Lakish discoursed: If one were to know that taking a vow of abstinence is like putting one’s neck in an iron collar would one take a vow? It is like a guard who passes a fortress and…
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Yerushalmi Sanhedrin
Said R. Yoḥanan, “One who does not know how to derive that a reptile is pure and impure in one hundred ways, may not investigate [testimony] in merit [of the defendant].”
Rabbi…
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Yerushalmi Gittin
If he transgressed and annulled [the divorce document]? Let us hear from the following: If he annulled, it is annulled, the words of Rabbi. Rabban Simeon ben Gamaliel says: He can neither annul it nor…