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\Vhat did lie ask? The preserva-
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Lily or tVell of the teIllpie? No, his
request was so modest that the Em-
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elder generation . the Talmud would
be forgotten, Israel would blend with 0
the nations and its memory be ob-
hsVe de-
How could the proud Emperor literated. Ile is said to
dream that Rome---mighty, imperial clared that so long as the Taliond
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was
no
hope
fur the
Roue—should perish. but that I scant
would live throughout the ages, he- destruction of the Jews.
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mountains and ordained six of the I
elder men of Rabbi Akilta's disciples
to be compilers of the Talmud. The
names of these six are: Rabbis :Heir,
Jelludah b. Elai. Jose b. 1111aphat,
Simeon h. Jochat, Eleazear b. Shemua 0
and Nehemiah.
Feeling sure that so long as these
kept alive the spirit of the Talmud
would not be lost. Rabbi Akilia thus
divers tongues.
addressed them: "Fly, toy sons, and
It has, thererore, been well noted hide from the wrath of the enemy.
that the 'Talmud is a table of the
I alone will remain, and will offer
struggle between light and darkness, my body to satiate their vengeance."
between education and 'ignorance,
It is said that the Romans pierced
with the final triumph of the school- his body with 3161 iron lances, "so
master.
that it resembled a sieve." The new-
A thousand authors worked during ly consecrated rabbis were saved and
nearly two thousand years to produce with them the Talmud.
the Talmud, the r hiri redactor of
Hadrian himself must have read
which was the famous Jelludah ha- the masterpiece of the ages, for
Nasi. Ile was one of the most inspir- when he found that his efforts had
ing teachers who ever lived, for his met with no success he is said to have
spirit held together for five centuries uttered this phrase. so like many
the colleges established in Babylonia others promulgated by the rabbinical
for carrying on the debates from sages: "Great is the sheep that
which the Gemara of the Talmud-- stands among seventy wolves."
the law as explained—was evolved
The stork filially became so popular
through careful study of the Misinia- that practically every town wherein
the law in brief.
Jews had their occupations possessed
Altogether, it took 800 years, be- also a house of learning for the study
ginning 300 R. C., for the oral assem-
"so that everywhere
of theC
bly of the thought and fancy of these it bloo1 led and flourished and bore
centuries and that handed down from the frui of the Nlislina."—Harry A.
ancient times. It took nearly Ha Woodworth in N. Y. Tribune.

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'Hie Talmud was the work of "mans
01111 of many minds,' and all condi-
tions of society and ?Taffy varieties
of religious thoughts are represented
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The Roman Emperor Hadrian, un- II
able to find a pretext for killing all 0
the sages who worked on the 1 . al-
low', decreed that if the old rabbis
should qualify a young rabbi to one
of the compilers, both should be put
to death and the place in which they
worked destroyed. It was thus be-
that with the death of the O

But Jaime (now Janinial and its
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law, the Hebrew literature, the He-
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the deep debt that modern the rabbis thought worthy of inclu-
education owes to the Tat- sion in a work that was planned as
mud must needs go back to the summary of all knowledge . were
the dark night when a funeral cortege contributors to this catholic and
came to the gate of add Jerusalem democratic work.
The "Falnitifl has suffered greatly
and the Roman guard gave way, be-
lieving that a beloved teacher was throughout many centuries, because 0
being borne to the grave or his dis- its enemies did not know what it 0
viol,. Beyond the city walls the pro. was. I here was never a work-110 0
The bier was set eVCII the Itibb that was so relent-
cession halted.
the
throughout
p.,..•cotA
.\ lot from the coffin arose lessly
down.
the venerable torni of Rabbi Jochanan ages as the Talmud, and by so many
sects and nations. This persecution
Ben Zacchai
The great teacher was not dead. began early in its career. The chief
In all a noble life devoted to living, men of Israel were slaughtered with-
he was Ti ter more :dive than then. out pitv Tristan and his successors
reach the Roman camp un- through the entire period of fifty-
molested. he had feigned death. He two y ears, from the destruction of
was taken before Vespasian, the vic- the •I envie to the tall of Bethel.
Many of the founders of the Tal-
torious Emperor, who was so sur-
II
prised by the ruse, so strongly im- mud forfeited their lives that the
pressed lie the majesty and power work might live. Rabbi Akiba, who ;
Talmud's
"main
pd.
no
as
the
is
that scone from the teacher's face.
is quaintly said to have "died
nosed be the magic of his voice,
ma; at length lie promised the rabbi with joy because lie died for the
he
might
Talmud.`'
any
desire
fulfilment
of
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Story of the Thrilling History of the Talmud-800 Years Spent
in the Oral Assembly of the Philosophy of the Times and
Another 800 Years Before It Was Put in Writing.
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