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Medieval Jewish philosopher from Spain (1135–1204)
The Talmud does not straightforwardly "say it's ok" to rape or sexually violate a three‑year‑old girl; what appears in certain passages is a set of technical legal distinctions about betrothal, eviden...
The Seven Noahide laws are a rabbinic conception of universal moral rules attributed in Talmudic passages to Adam and Noah and discussed principally in Sanhedrin and Avodah Zarah; they function in cla...
Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews share the core beliefs and rituals of Judaism but differ in liturgy, pronunciation, holiday customs, cuisine and some halakhic rulings — for example, many Sephardim permit...
Rabbinic literature treats “the satan” variably: often as an agent of God who accuses or tests humans (e.g., the accuser in Zechariah or the tester in Job), sometimes as a personified trickster or fun...
Modern Jewish philosophers reconcile Noahide universalism and Jewish particularism by treating the Seven Noahide laws as a universal moral floor that complements — rather than replaces — Israel’s dist...
Three towering medieval voices read the Talmud through different prisms: Rashi emphasizes close, often midrashic particularism that ties law to covenantal Israel and the patriarchs , Maimonides (Ramba...
Most mainstream halakhic authorities maintain that rebuilding the Temple should await the coming of the Messiah or divine providence rather than human-initiated action, though a minority of rabbis and...
The red heifer ritual originates in Numbers 19, where God commands a unique purification rite using the ashes of an unblemished, never-yoked red heifer burned outside the camp; those ashes mixed with ...