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Avodah Zarah (Hebrew: עבודה זרה, or "foreign worship", meaning "idolatry" or "strange service") is the name of a tractate of the Talmud, located in Nezikin, the fourth Order of the Talmud dealing with damages. The main topic of the tractate is laws pertaining to Jews living amongst Gentiles, including regulations about the interaction between Jews and "avodei ha kochavim", which literally interpreted is "Worshipers of the stars", but is most often translated as "idolaters", "pagans", or "heathen."
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Saturnalia (1783) by Antoine Callet, showing his interpretation of ancient pagan holiday.
AvodahZarah (Hebrew: עבודה זרה, or "foreign worship", meaning "idolatry" or "strange service") is the name of a tractate of the Talmud, located in Nezikin...
Maccabees used Seleucid Era dating exclusively, and the Talmud tractate AvodahZarah states: Rav Aha b. Jacob then put this question: How do we know that...
mentions Metatron by name in three places: Hagigah 15a, Sanhedrin 38b and AvodahZarah 3b. Hagigah 15a describes Elisha ben Abuyah in Paradise seeing Metatron...
many of the censors' errors. "It is noteworthy due to the inclusion of AvodahZarah, omitted due to Church censorship from several previous editions, and...
traditionally enumerated in the Babylonian Talmud Sanhedrin 56a-b and Tosefta AvodahZarah 9:4, are the following: Not to worship idols. Not to curse God. Not to...
Jerusalem Talmud AvodahZarah 2:2 IV.I and Babylonian Talmud AvodahZarah 27b provide a similar account to Chullin 2:22-23. AvodahZarah 28a in the Babylonian...
that illustrate various Sages and principles of halakha. 8 chapters. AvodahZarah (עבודה זרה, Foreign worship) deals with the laws of interactions between...
Yeshu]". Jeffrey Rubenstein has argued that the accounts in Chullin and AvodahZarah ("Idolatry") reveal an ambivalent relationship between rabbis and Christianity...
Israelite. The prohibition, which is listed in the Mishnah tractate titled AvodahZarah, allows for benefit to be derived from such milk, while drinking it is...
corresponding passages of the Jerusalem Talmud (AvodahZarah 2:2 IV.I) and Babylonian Talmud (AvodahZarah 27b) The name Yeshu is not mentioned in the Hebrew...
"after cutting the meat" = אחרי חתיכת הבשר. In the Talmud (Ḥullin 137b; AvodahZarah 58b), the Sages of Israel had a practice to read words derived from the...
particularly served during this festival. An Aggadic legend found in tractate AvodahZarah 8a puts forth the talmudic hypothesis that Adam first established the...
mention of the name, although one translation (Herford) has added it to AvodahZarah 2:2 to align it with similar text of Chullin 2:22 in the Tosefta.[citation...
first groups to use the term "toy" in reference to a dildo. The Talmud's AvodahZarah Tractate records the interpretation which Rav Yosef bar Hiyya gave to...
Menachot an angel disputes the laws of fringes with Rabbi Kattina, in AvodahZarah the angel of death betrays his deep familiarity with the rules of ritual...
Sanhedrin 97a; part of this passage is reproduced in Rosh Hashana 31a and AvodahZarah 9a Pirkei De-Rabbi Eliezer, 18:12 Zohar (1:117a); Zohar Vayera 119a World...
Accounting for Halakhic difference in selected Sugyot from tractate AvodahZarah" sought to compare and account for halakhic differences between the two...
follows: Even medieval Jews understood very well that Christianity is avodahzarah of a special type. The tosafists assert that although a Christian pronouncing...
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