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The Talmud forbids lying or deceiving others: "The Holy One, blessed be He, hates a person which says one thing with his mouth and another in his heart" (Pesahim 113b) and also forbids fraud in business dealings: "As there is wronging in buying and selling, there is wronging with words.
When the Talmud sees the Hebrew word Adam it sees an allusion to Adam of Genesis 1-5 who was at one time the only person. The Talmud understands this as referring to the Jewish people who are an organic unit like one person. Gentiles do not have this organic national bond with each other and are therefore excluded from this concept.
Talmud Gittin 83a also implies that the prohibition on marrying one's daughter is a matter of Torah law [34]) One's granddaughter (Leviticus 18:10) A woman and her daughter (Leviticus 18:17) A woman and her granddaughter (Leviticus 18:17) One's aunt by blood (Leviticus 18:12–13) One's father's brother (Leviticus 18:14)
Invalidity of gentile courts (he:ערכאות של גויים) is a Talmudic rule regarding gentile courts in Judaism. The rule states that gentile courts are invalid for ruling over Jews. [1] Jewish law requires disputes to be settled by a Jewish court under the laws of the Torah. It is forbidden to settle disputes in a court ruled by gentile ...
The Three Oaths is the name for a midrash found in the Babylonian Talmud, and midrash anthologies, that interprets three verses from Song of Solomon as God imposing three oaths upon the world. Two oaths pertain to the Jewish people and a third oath applies to the gentile nations of the world.
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.
However it does not clearly specify what customs would be called gentile customs. The Talmud deals with this topic in Avodah Zora 11a when it describes the gentile custom of burning the bed of a king after he has died. In Sanhedrin 52b similar debate is raised about Gentile custom of beheading criminals with a sword. Both of these mentions ...
The two Gemaras, as usual, discuss the laws of the Mishnah; the Jerusalem Talmud rather briefly, the Babylonian Talmud more fully. The following are a few of the principles enunciated in the Gemara: According to Symmachus ben Joseph : Property concerning which there is a doubt whether it belongs to A or to B, is divided between A and B without ...