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Updated: May 26, 2025
The heresy of "Minut," frequently mentioned in the Talmud, consisted originally, in the opinion of modern scholars, of a Gnostic ditheism; and during the latter part of the first century and thereafter we hear of sects in Egypt and Syria which supported similar theories.
"Is there any passage in the Talmud which forbids the learning of a foreign language or the reading of a book not written in Hebrew?" The Rabbi gazed thoughtfully upon the ground but could not recollect such a passage. "Last week," continued Mendel, "while in the city, I saw a book in Russian characters. I bought it and took it home to study.
But it is clear that man has a duty to study the divine goodness and wisdom as exhibited in nature, else of what use is his faculty of reason and intelligence, which raises him above the beast. If he neglects it, he places himself below the latter, which realizes all the functions of which it is capable. Bible and Talmud are equally emphatic in urging us to study the wonders of nature.
After the service, the venerable Zimri, opening a volume of the Talmud, and fortified by the opinions of all those illustrious and learned doctors, the heroes of his erudite conversations with the aged Maimon, expounded the law to the congregation of the people. 'It is written, said the Rabbi, "Thou shalt have none other God but me."
The Talmud understands the mystic names of the Bible in a similar way, but represents that the oracle ceased with the destruction of the first Temple, and was not known in the second Temple. Josephus enlarges, in a way common to the Hellenistic-Jewish apologists, on the symbolism of the Temple service and furniture.
"These four are accounted as dead the blind, the leper, the poor, and the childless." Thus the Talmud.
No such heaven on earth could be dreamed of there. The country was still in a most barbarous state. Those who wished to perfect themselves in any of the sciences had to leave home and all and go to a foreign land, and had to study, as they were bidden to study the Talmud, "lishmah," that is, for its own sake.
But the Vedas, the Homeric poems, the Tripitaka as well, existed in memory long before they were committed to writing. The same is true of the Talmud. Orally it existed prior to the Christ. Considered as literature, if it may be so considered, it is the reverse of endearing. But of the many maxims that it contains there are some of singular charm.
"The House that Jack Built" has its prototype in a sacred hymn in the Talmud of the Hebrews. "Jack, the Giant Killer" and "Jack and the Beanstalk" are two very ancient themes coming from the North, of the time, it is said, of King Arthur, and of the days when "Giants were upon the earth." The well-known cry of the giants in these legends
Mapu was born at Slobodka, a suburb of Kowno, a sad town inhabited almost entirely by Jews. The whole of the population vegetates there amid the most deplorable conditions, economic and sanitary. The father of Mapu was a poor, melancholy Melammed, a teacher of Hebrew and the Talmud, simple in his outlook upon life, yet not without a certain degree of education.
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