What is the Talmud? History of Judaism
The Mishnah is at the top center, the Gemara is in the center of the page, Rashi is on the right, and other later commentators are on the left and bottom. [...]
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What’s a synagogue? History of Judaism
The remains of the Second Temple in Jerusalem What does the name mean? Synagogue in Greek means a place for coming together, a meeting place, and that is what a synagogue (SIN-ah-gog) [...]
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What is a rabbi? Judaism – Religion
The rabbi Maimonides, in a later medieval painting What does "rabbi" mean? Rabbi means "great one" in Hebrew, or "respected one". It's a Hebrew word related to the Arabic word rabb, [...]
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Ten commandments of Moses – History of the Jewish religion
Moses receiving the Ten Commandments, from a Jewish prayer book written in medieval Germany, about 1290 AD (now in the Saxon State Library) God gave the commandments to Moses The [...]
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Medieval Schools – Europe
Clerks in the Manessa Codex threatening students with sticks (1300 AD) - Medieval schools Who went to school? In medieval Europe, even fewer kids went to school than in the Roman Empire. [...]
