The rabbinic tradition of the Pharisees (a Jewish sect that sanctioned the reinterpretation of the Mosaic Law) was established in the Mishna (commentaries) and later in the Palestinian and Babylonian Talmud (compendiums of commentaries upon the Torah and lore).
Robert Burton's classic "The Anatomy of Melancholy" is essentially a compendium of quotes with commentary.
Protected by Roman Catholic authorities, who saw in them a means of converting the Jews, the Frankists debated with representatives of the rabbinate and claimed that the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law and commentary, should be discarded as blasphemous.
The section was conceived as a compendium of witty, incisive commentary on the best of New York City's cultural offerings what's going on in jazz clubs, cinemas, museums, opera houses, and Broadway theatres.
His commentary on the Pentateuch is sometimes ranked with the classic 11th-century commentaries by Rashi on the Talmud, the rabbinic compendium of law, lore, and commentary.
It looks to be a compendium of my [previous] commentaries," he said.
Simeon ben Zemah Duran, also called (by acronym) Rashbaz, (born 1361, Majorca, Balearic Islands [now part of Spain] died 1444, Algiers [Algeria]), first Spanish Jewish rabbi to be paid a regular salary by the community and author of an important commentary on Avot ("Fathers"), a popular ethical tractate in the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary.
The Mishna became the subject of interpretation in the Talmud, the fundamental rabbinic compendium of law, lore, and commentary.
Ḥisdai fostered the study of Jewish law and the Talmud (the rabbinic compendium of law, lore, and commentary), thereby making Spanish Jewry relatively independent of the Eastern Talmudic academies.
The Talmud, the rabbinic compendium of law, lore, and commentary, states that Aquila was influenced in his translation by the great martyred scholar Rabbi Akiba ben Joseph.
This work is doubly remarkable because Reform Jews deny the authority of the Talmud, the rabbinical compendium of law, lore, and commentary.
