Capitolo 19
according to it is the greatest, the more studied, the preserved best, and to him
attention will mainly be confined here. The Talmud is not a book, it is
a literature. It contains a legal code, a system of ethics a body of
ritual customs, poetic passages, prayers, histories, made of science
and medicine and desires to people-know.
The Amoraim both that that it implicates their name, "Expounders" or
"Discoursers"; but their exposures were often original contributions
to the literature. Their job extends on the long interval among 200 and
500 C.Es. The Amoraim both naturally men of various character and
condition. Some were possessed of a lot of wealth of material, others were
excessively poor. But few of them were professional men of letters. As
the Tannaim, the Amoraim is artisan, field-workers often or
physicians whose heart was certainly in literature, but whose hand was
he turns to the practical business of the life. The men that were standing taller
socially, the Principles of the Imprisonment in Babylon and the Patriarchs
in Palestine, it was not always those suit of the sacred hangings with the tallest authority.
Some of the Amoraim, was only again receptive, the mean through
what tradition was given on; others were as good creative. To put the
same fact in metaphor of Rabbinical, some were Sinais to learn others,
broken mountains, and it hinders together them in funeral and critical complaint
dialectics.
The more old man of the Amoraim, Chanina, the child of Chama, of Sepphoris
(180-260), it was such fixed mountain of the ancient culture. On the other
gives, Jochanan, the child of Napacha (199-279), to dazzle physicist
beauty, had a more original mind. Its personal charms brought him
perhaps a sense of the artistic one; to him the Greek language was a
please, "an ornament of women." Simon, the child of Lakish (200-275),
game of muscle and of intellect, the life started as a professional
athlete. A later Rabbi, Zeira was noticed equally for his/her weak,
a little attractive figure and his/her agile mind, clever. Another
contemporary of Jochanan, Joshua, his/her child of you Raise it is the hero of many