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...RABBI) Tzvi H. PORATH Montgomery County Jewish Community, Inc. Chevy Chase...
...Rabbi, Gordon...
...have their say. It has published long defenses of the natural-law argument against birth control, for example, as well as attacks on it. Its columnists include conservative Catholic Garry Wills, a frequent contributor to the National Review, and liberal Catholic John Leo of Commonweal−as well as Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg and Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty...
...oldest part is the Mish nah, or Teaching, a selection of the Oral Law as taught by synagogue sages and compiled by Rabbi Judah Hanasi at the end of the 2nd century. The rabbi divided this oral teaching into six main divisions called "orders," covering agriculture, festivals, marriage, civil and criminal laws, sacrifices, and ritual purification. In the 4th century, another great editor, Rav Ashi, began to compile the Gemara (study), or commentaries on the Mishnah by later rabbis. His work was completed by Jewish scholars in Persia during the 5th century and is known as the Babylonian Talmud...
...Talmud reaches no final conclusions and does not try to reconcile contrary opinions. One authority will claim that a wife has nothing of her own while her husband lives; another will argue that she is entitled to personal property for her private use. In the view of one lenient rabbi, the Sabbath was made for man; another will demand the strict observance of so many Sabbath regulations that they seem, says a Talmudic sage, "like a chain of mountains hanging on a hair." Only by years of study can Talmudic scholars learn how to make the subtle distinction between...