This interesting distinction is described in the Baraita: According to the Baraita, if a sapling is planted thirty days before Rosh Hashanah of a Shemitah year, these days are counted as an entire ...

The Talmud, in a baraita, asks the question “Mai Hanukah – What is Hanukkah” and goes on to answer what has become the conventional answer to this question: The Sages taught [in a Baraita ...

Answer: While Shema Koleinu, in most congregations, serves as a “highlight” of the Selichot prayers (which we also recite on numerous occasions throughout the year), it was not originally a ...

The PhD student will investigate Hebrew and Jewish Aramaic texts, in first instance either Pirqei de-Rabbi Eliezer (chapters 6-8) or Baraita de-Shemuel (both works dated approximately to the eighth ...

Nonetheless, a medieval text known as Baraita of Mesechet Nidda (author unknown) wrote that a nidda is prohibited from entering the synagogue. Despite the Talmudic texts, Rav Yehudai Gaon ...

Insights from Toras Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe's father, presented by Shliach Rabbi Dovid Dubov of New Jersey, for Parshas Shemini: Hint to the Entire Purim Story. Full Story, Video ...

Moving down to the Talmudic and medieval periods, there is a famous Baraita [teaching of the Tannaim] in Bava Batra 8b which says that townspeople have the right l’hasia al kitzatan (to inflict ...

A careful reading of the Baraita shows that it comprises two separate, somewhat conflicting layers. From a halakhic (Jewish legal) point of view, everyone may be called up to the Torah ...

While Jews add a month periodically to the lunar calendar after the twelfth month as per the Baraita in Rosh Hashana (7a) (see also Pesachim 6a), the Babylonians did not. The second of the two ...

"I feel inadequate to do [church history] justice as the first to venture on such an undertaking, a traveler on a lonely and untrodden path." Imagine writing a comprehensive history of the church ...