Word: talmudically
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...Talmud Takes Mixed View on Drinking
...parliamentary election in which they're going to the polls primarily to vote for their own party, but this election is only for the post of prime minister. The rabbis may simply advise supporters of the religious parties, for example, to stay in their religious schools and study the Talmud on election day. (And reserve the right to bring down the winner if he fails to satisfy their demands.) Also, nobody yet knows how or whether the Russian immigrants or the Israeli Arabs will vote inlarge numbers. Support given or withdrawn by each of those groups has been known...
...most famous example concerns the death penalty. It appears rather promiscuously in the Bible. The Talmud, however, constructs such difficult evidentiary requirements and such extraordinary protections against miscarried justice that the rabbis termed a high court that executes one person in seven years "tyrannical." Another authority, continues the Talmud, says one person in 70 years...
...Jobs is deeply into this. He sits there nibbling on dried fruit, quaffing his latest Odwalla fruit juice--he loves the new twist-off caps--and perusing the timeline like a rabbi studying Talmud, looking up every few minutes with another pressing question: When do the TV ads start? What's this NASCAR thing about? How about theme-park events? Can they schedule a later meeting to review the billboards? Which news-mag show should they be pushing for? Is it possible, if the movie opens big on Thanksgiving--like incredibly, unbelievably big--that Disney might delay the date when...
...found, being from Harvard, that people extended to me credibility I didn't deserve," he says. "Professors found I could write even if I couldn't study Talmud...