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    The Talmud Period - Worksheet For PP Presentation

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    The document discusses the Jewish community in Babylonia after the decline of the Jewish center in Israel. It covers topics like the four waves of Jewish immigration to Babylonia, the relationship between Jews and their rulers, important figures like the Exilarch and Amoraim, laws and customs developed in Babylonia, and the authoring and contents of the Talmud. The Talmud was sealed around 500 CE and contains legal and non-legal discussions that had a profound impact on shaping Judaism and Jewish life for generations to come.

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    The document discusses the Jewish community in Babylonia after the decline of the Jewish center in Israel. It covers topics like the four waves of Jewish immigration to Babylonia, the relationship between Jews and their rulers, important figures like the Exilarch and Amoraim, laws and customs developed in Babylonia, and the authoring and contents of the Talmud. The Talmud was sealed around 500 CE and contains legal and non-legal discussions that had a profound impact on shaping Judaism and Jewish life for generations to come.

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    The document discusses the Jewish community in Babylonia after the decline of the Jewish center in Israel. It covers topics like the four waves of Jewish immigration to Babylonia, the relationship between Jews and their rulers, important figures like the Exilarch and Amoraim, laws and customs developed in Babylonia, and the authoring and contents of the Talmud. The Talmud was sealed around 500 CE and contains legal and non-legal discussions that had a profound impact on shaping Judaism and Jewish life for generations to come.

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    The document discusses the Jewish community in Babylonia after the decline of the Jewish center in Israel. It covers topics like the four waves of Jewish immigration to Babylonia, the relationship between Jews and their rulers, important figures like the Exilarch and Amoraim, laws and customs developed in Babylonia, and the authoring and contents of the Talmud. The Talmud was sealed around 500 CE and contains legal and non-legal discussions that had a profound impact on shaping Judaism and Jewish life for generations to come.

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    The Talmud period – Worksheet for PP presentation

    The decline of the Jewish center in Israel

    1) What were the 2 events that symbolize the decline of the Jewish center in Israel?

    a.

    b.

    2) When were the 4 Jewish waves of immigration to Bavel?

    a.

    b.

    c.

    d.

    Map work

    3) a. What is the ancient name of the area where Bavel is situated?

    b. What 2 modern countries are there today?

    c. What are the 2 big rivers where most of the Babylonian Jews lived?

    The Jewish community in Bavel

    4) What was the relationship between the Jews and their rulers?

    5) What language did they speak?

    6) Who was the Exilarch? What were his responsibilities?


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    7) What was the relationship between the Jews of Bavel and the Jews of Eretz Israel?

    Write 4 examples:

    a.

    b.

    c.

    d.

    The Amoraim

    8) a. Who were the Amoraim?

    b. How many years the period of the Amoraim lasted?

    c. What is their biggest accomplishment?

    d. Write the names of the famous Yeshivot in Bavel:

    Rav and Shmuel

    9) Who were Rav and Shmuel?

    10) Why did R’ Judah HaNasi refuse to ordain them as Rabbis?

    11) What do you know about Rav?

    12) What do you know about Shmuel?


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    Important laws and customs

    13) a. What do you know about “Yarchei Kalla”?

    b. What is the significance an importance of this custom?

    14) a. What is the law of “Dina demalchuta dina”?

    b. What is the significance and importance of this law?

    The Talmud

    15) a. When was the Talmud sealed?

    b. What is the content of the Talmud?

    c. What are the 2 books of Talmud?

    d. The Talmud’s language is

    e. Explain the difference between “Midrash Halacha” and “Midrash Aggadah”.

    16) What are the 3 accomplishments of the Amoraim? What was the long-term impact of
    each of them on Jewish life?

    a.

    b.

    c.
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    17) Time line – Summary Please, copy the time line.

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