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HALAKHAH LE-MOSHE MI-SINAI Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
... LE-MOSHE MI-SINAI ( a law [transmitted orally] to Moses from [Mount] Sinai), laws regarded by the Talmud, while never stated explicitly in scripture or derived from it, as having biblical authority. Since a number of these laws were clearly post-Mosaic, some medieval commentators noted that the term was also used to describe laws that were beyond any doubt, as if they had been given to Moses at Sinai. Shemu’el Safrai has shown that early rabbinic literature did not recognize a special category of laws given to Moses at Sinai and that the term is nothing...
Halakhah Le-Moshe Mi-Sinai
SINAI, MOUNT Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
...to support it. The geographic location of Mount Sinai played no role in Jewish consciousness, and no attempt was made to establish a holy site there, although in Jewish thought, Sinai is one of two sacred mountains (the other being Mount Zion/Mount Moriah ). See also Halakhah le-Moshe Mi-Sinai ; Mi-sinai . Thomas B. Dozeman , God on the Mountain: A Study of Redaction, Theology, and Canon in Exodus 19–24, Monograph Series (Society of Biblical Literature) , no. 37 (Atlanta, 1989). Jön Douglas Levenson , Sinai and Zion (San Francisco, 1987). R.W.L. Moberly...
TRADITION Reference library
The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.)
...from the Bible but which are regarded as of equal authority with biblical laws. These are called “ halakhot of Moses from Mount Sinai” ( see Halakhah le-Moshe mi-Sinai ). Thus, Eliʿezer ben Hyrcanus told R. Yosei to ignore a vote taken on a certain occasion since “I have a kabbalah from R. Yoḥanan ben Zakk’ai, who heard it from his teacher, and his teacher from his teacher, that it is a halakhah of Moses from Mount Sinai that in Ammon and Moab the poor man’s tithe is given in the seventh year” ( Yad. 4.3; Ḥag. 3b). Again, finding no biblical...
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