Rabbinic Judaism

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Rabbinic Judaism is the mainstream form of Judaism that developed after the Second Temple’s destruction, centered on the authority of the rabbis, the Oral Torah, and the interpretation of Jewish law and tradition.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of Judaism
form of Judaism
religious tradition
centralAuthorityFigure Rabbi
centralInstitution Beit din
Synagogue
Beit midrash
surface form: Yeshiva
codifiedIn Babylonian Talmud completed around 6th century CE
Mishnah around 200 CE
contrastsWith Hellenistic Jews
surface form: Hellenistic Judaism

Karaite Jews
surface form: Karaite Judaism

Sadducees
surface form: Sadducean Judaism
developedAfter Roman destruction of the Second Temple
surface form: Destruction of the Second Temple

End of the Second Temple period
dominantFormOf Contemporary Judaism
Rabbinic Judaism self-linksurface differs
surface form: Post-Temple Judaism
emergedFrom Pharisees
surface form: Pharisaic Judaism
emphasizes Community over Temple
Law and ethics
Study over sacrifice
geographicScope Neo-Babylonian Empire
surface form: Babylonia

Diaspora communities
Global
Palestine
surface form: Land of Israel
hasConcept Aggadah
Beit midrash
Binding nature of Oral Torah
Blessings (berakhot)
Chain of tradition
Codification of law
Community-based law
Daily prayer services
Fence around the Torah
Festival observance
Gezerot
Halakha
Halakhic precedent
Kashrut
Legal pluralism within halakha
Machloket
Majority rule in legal decisions
Masorah
Minhag
Mitzvot
Mishnah
surface form: Oral Torah

Pikuach nefesh
Prayer liturgy
Public Torah reading
Rabbinic Judaism self-linksurface differs
surface form: Rabbinic authority

Rabbinic courts
Rabbinic decrees
Midrash
surface form: Rabbinic hermeneutics

Rabbinic leadership
Rabbinic ordination
Midrash halakha
surface form: Sanhedrin tradition

Shabbat
surface form: Shabbat observance

Siddur
Synagogue worship
Takanot
Aseret Yemei Teshuvah
surface form: Teshuva

Thirteen principles of exegesis
Torah study
Torah
surface form: Written Torah

Beit midrash
surface form: Yeshiva
hasCoreText Halakhic codes
Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

Midrash
Mishnah
Responsa literature
Shulchan Aruch
Talmud
includesMovement Conservative Judaism
Haredi Jews
surface form: Haredi Judaism

Masorti movement
surface form: Masorti Judaism

Orthodox Judaism
surface form: Modern Orthodox Judaism

Orthodox Judaism
Reform Judaism
Religious Zionism
influencedBy Diaspora conditions
Pharisaic legal traditions
Temple-era practices
languageOfScholarship Aramaic
Hebrew
majorSubtradition Ashkenazi Jewish diaspora
surface form: Ashkenazi Judaism

Italian Jews
surface form: Italian Judaism

Mizrahi Jews
surface form: Mizrahi Judaism

Sephardi Jews
surface form: Sephardi Judaism

Yemenite Judaism
practiceFeature Circumcision
Daily prayer
Dietary laws
Family purity laws
Life-cycle rituals
Observance of 613 commandments as interpreted by rabbis
Shabbat
surface form: Sabbath rest
recognizesAuthorityOf Acharonim
Amoraim
Geonim
Rishonim
Tannaim
recognizesText Talmud
surface form: Babylonian Talmud

Geonic responsa
Midrash halakha
surface form: Halakhic Midrashim

Talmud
surface form: Jerusalem Talmud

Midrash
surface form: Midrash Rabbah

Mishnah
Rishonim commentaries
Shulchan Aruch
surface form: Shulchan Aruch and commentaries
theologyFeature Belief in divine revelation at Sinai
Belief in messianic redemption
Belief in resurrection of the dead
Belief in reward and punishment
Centrality of Torah
Covenant between God and Israel
timePeriod Amoraic period
Geonic period
Second Temple Judaism
surface form: Late Second Temple period

Medieval period
Modern period
Tannaitic period
viewsOralTorahAs Authoritative interpretation of Written Torah
Transmitted tradition from Sinai

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Rabbi Eleazar ben Shimon tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Mishnah Berakhot religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbi Yehuda ben Ilai tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbi Nehunia ben HaKana tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Arba Olamot tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Yad ha-Chazakah legalSchool Rabbinic Judaism
Sefer HaMadda associatedWithCommunity Rabbinic Judaism
Sefer Mishpatim hasCanonicalStatusIn Rabbinic Judaism
Shevat usedByCommunity Rabbinic Judaism
USCJ religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Yosef Gikatilla religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Sefer Taharah hasCanonicalStatusIn Rabbinic Judaism
Sefer Nezikin canonicalWithin Rabbinic Judaism
Four Rows isPartOfTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Beit Yosef by Rabbi Yosef Karo religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
subject surface form: Beit Yosef
Isaac Alfasi movement Rabbinic Judaism
Iberian diaspora hasReligiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Kartveli Ebraelebi religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
ha-Kadosh usedIn Rabbinic Judaism
this entity surface form: rabbinic Judaism
Shimon ben Gamliel II culture Rabbinic Judaism
HaRif movement Rabbinic Judaism
Lucena yeshiva religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Talmud Yerushalmi tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Shmuel of Nehardea tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Rav influenced Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbi Yohanan bar Nappaha tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Rava tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Ravina culture Rabbinic Judaism
Resh Lakish tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Abba Arika (Rav) movement Rabbinic Judaism
subject surface form: Abba Arika
Abba Arika (Rav) influenced Rabbinic Judaism
subject surface form: Abba Arika
this entity surface form: rabbinic Judaism
Sura academy tradition Rabbinic Judaism
subject surface form: Sura Academy
Chida (Rabbi Chaim Yosef David Azulai) movement Rabbinic Judaism
subject surface form: Chida
Rav Ashi movement Rabbinic Judaism
Savoraim religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Amram Gaon religiousDenomination Rabbinic Judaism
Rav Papa tradition Rabbinic Judaism
the Men of the Great Assembly (in some traditions) religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
subject surface form: Men of the Great Assembly
Rabbi Meir tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Maharal of Prague movement Rabbinic Judaism
Talmudic sage Rabbi Meir tradition Rabbinic Judaism
subject surface form: Rabbi Meir
Zugot religiousBranch Rabbinic Judaism
Sanhedrin at Yavneh religiousTradition Rabbinic Judaism
Yavneh associatedWith Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah tradition Rabbinic Judaism
Rabbi Joshua ben Hananiah culture Rabbinic Judaism
this entity surface form: Rabbinic Palestinian Judaism
Abba Arikha tradition Rabbinic Judaism