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In a time of chaos, the sages do the unprecedented and write down the Oral Law. At various times during the Hadrian persecutions, the sages were forced into hiding, though they managed to [...]

In a time when many things were going wrong for the Jews, the sages Hillel and Shammai defined what was going right. We have discussed the rift between the Pharisees (the mainstream Jews) and the [...]

Extraordinary sages define the essence of Judaism for the Jews of Israel and the Diaspora. The Men of the Great Assembly — in Hebrew, Anshei Knesset HaGedolah — was an unusual group [...]