Menorah Mosaic, Sepphoris

While I have a great abundance of evidence to show the wishes of your great-grandfather Augustus I will content myself with two examples. The first is a letter which he sent to the governors of the…

For it was customary on every day when opportunity offered, and pre-eminently on the seventh day, as I have explained above, to pursue the study of wisdom with the ruler expounding and instructing the…

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…

R. Ḥiyya bar Abba said: As I was passing before the synagogue of the Babylonians in Sepphoris, I heard children sitting and reading [scripture]: Abraham journeyed from there (Genesis 20:1). And I said…

Rav said to R. Ḥiyya: [By] what [virtue] do women merit [this reward? R. Ḥiyya answered: They merit this reward] for bringing their children to read [the…

R. Abba b. Kahana said: No philosophers in the world ever arose like Baalam b. Beor and Abnymos of Gadara. The nations of the world came to Abnymos of Gadara. They said to him: Can we conquer this…