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According to the Talmud, the Maccabees returned to the Second Temple after defeating their Greek-Syrian oppressors.
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Parents Editors, Parents, 13 Dec. 2025
The earliest version of this story appears in the Talmud – the main collection of rabbinic laws and commentary – some 500 years after the story occurred.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
Researchers noted the significance of that timing, since Alexander Jannaeus descended from leaders of a revolt in 167 B.C.E. that the Talmud says led to the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem and the first celebration of the Hanukkah holiday.
—CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
According to the Talmud, leaving money or material goods behind, whether to heirs or anyone else, is a mistake for two reasons.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
As the Talmud tells it, when the Romans first laid siege to Jerusalem and the Second Temple, the walled city had supplies to withstand the blockade for years to come.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
The rabbis in the Talmud question whether human beings are truly capable of fulfilling this.
—Rabbi David Steinhardt, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2025
Historical accounts of dreidel usage vary: Did the game originate as a means of avoiding persecution for studying the Talmud?
—Sam Corbin, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
One potential obstacle to my Orthodox conversion was that my second husband, Jacob, was a kohen, a member of a priestly male hereditary line going back to the time of Moses, and according to the Talmud kohanim are forbidden to marry converts.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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Parents Editors, Parents, 13 Dec. 2025
The earliest version of this story appears in the Talmud – the main collection of rabbinic laws and commentary – some 500 years after the story occurred.
—Joshua Shanes, The Conversation, 11 Dec. 2025
Researchers noted the significance of that timing, since Alexander Jannaeus descended from leaders of a revolt in 167 B.C.E. that the Talmud says led to the restoration of the temple in Jerusalem and the first celebration of the Hanukkah holiday.
—CBS News, 10 Dec. 2025
According to the Talmud, leaving money or material goods behind, whether to heirs or anyone else, is a mistake for two reasons.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 25 Oct. 2025
As the Talmud tells it, when the Romans first laid siege to Jerusalem and the Second Temple, the walled city had supplies to withstand the blockade for years to come.
—Yair Rosenberg, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
The rabbis in the Talmud question whether human beings are truly capable of fulfilling this.
—Rabbi David Steinhardt, Sun Sentinel, 28 May 2025
Historical accounts of dreidel usage vary: Did the game originate as a means of avoiding persecution for studying the Talmud?
—Sam Corbin, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025
One potential obstacle to my Orthodox conversion was that my second husband, Jacob, was a kohen, a member of a priestly male hereditary line going back to the time of Moses, and according to the Talmud kohanim are forbidden to marry converts.
—Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2024
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