What is the bible. What is MORE popular? The bible or the Talmud?
What is the bible.
100
What is the date of the destruction of the *second* temple?
What is 516 BCE
100
What came first, Rabi or Kohen?
Kohen
100
What does the word Mishnah mean?
What is "the teaching".
100
What were the roles of the Pharisees?
What is they were to become the spiritual progenitors of talmudic Judaism.
200
What is the difference between the Bible and Talmud?
What is the talmud is records of rabinic teachings, and the Bible is a collection of twenty four books that tell a story (starting at creation).
200
Who built the first temple, and when?
What is King Shlomo/ Soloman, and in 900 BCE.
200
What group of people (in time) turned into Rabbis?
What is sages.
200
Why did Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nasi edit such a work, that is now today known as the Mishnah?
What is since the Midrash was organized by book and verse, a person had to look up every single refrence in order to learn all of the teachings. The Rabbis needed a more efficient way of collecting traditions by subject.
200
What were some Jews attracted to in the year 70 C.E.
What is Jesus, the Messiah.
300
Which book (the Talmud or the Bible) has more pages?
The Talmud.
300
When was the second temple destroyed and by who?
What is The Romans, and in 70 BCE
300
What is the difference between a catholic preist and a Kohen?
What is Catholic Preists are Christian, Kohens are Jewish.
300
How many masekhtot, tractaes, in Moed covering various holidays?
What is 12 masekhtot.
300
What does the word Amoraim mean?
What is "explainers".
400
How many pages are in the bible?
What is 1,500.
400
What three holidays did all of Banai Yisreal go to the Temple?
What is Passover, Sukkot and Shavuot.
400
What was the Talmud's meaning of a Rabbi, opposed to our contemporary meaning of the term?
What is Rabbi comes from the root word "great". The Rabbis (in Babylonia) were called Rav. And, Rabbis become Rabbis after having studied for a significant period of time. Rabbis served as a (in some cases) Judge in Civil cases.
400
How was the Midrash organized?
What is by book and by verse.
400
What are the names of the two (actual) Talmuds?
What is The Yerushalmi and the Bavli.
500
How many pages is in the Talmud?
What is 5,400
500
When was the Mishkan built, who replaced it, what replaced it, and when?
What is King Shlomo, after the isrealies left Egypt and it was replaced in 900 BCE by the temple.
500
Did Rabbis earn money from being Rabbis? Was it considered a professional life style / job?
What is no, Rabbis earned no money from being Rabbis. It was not a professional job either. They had other jobs.
500
What are the six major sections of the Mishnah?
What is Moed, Nashim, Nazikin, Teharot, Kodashim and Zeraim.
500
What are the two meanings of the Mishnah?
What is The Mishnah is the collection of laws attributed by tradition to the editorship of Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nashi. A Mishnah is any particular law in this collection.