Capitolo 20
legends. He was so tender to the poor man that he declared his/her sentence
what the Messiah would rise among the mendicant and lame of Rome.
Simlai that was born in Palestine and he/she emigrated to Nehardea in
Babylon, was more than a poet that a lawyer. Its love was for the
ethical and poetic elements of the Talmud, the _Hagadah_ as this aspect
some literature of Rabbinical had called in antithetical distinction to the
_Halachah_ or legal elements. Simlai entered frequent discussions
with the Christian Fathers on subjects of the Biblical exegesis.
The centre of interest now changes to Babylon. Here, of year 219,
Abba Areka or Rab (175-247), it founded the academy of Sura that continued
to bloom for almost eight centuries. His and he great contemporary
Sam (180-257) enjoys with Jochanan the honor to provide the additional line spacing
material of which the Talmud consists. Sam placed down a rule that,
based on an expression of the prophet Jeremiah, Hebrews trained for living and
serves in countries not-Hebrews. "The law of the earth is law", says
Sam. But he lived in the kingdoms of the stars as in the
roads of his/her city. Sam was an astronomer, and he is brought
you/he/she is boasted with truth that "he was familiarized as with the runs of the
stars as with the roads of Nehardea." He systematized the Jewish Calendar,
his/her job in this direction that is improved by Hillel II in the quarter
century. Likes Simlai, Rab and Sam they had pagan and Cristiano friends.
Origen and Jerome read the Sacred writings under the guide of Hebrews. The
they pay that philosopher Porphyry has written a commentary on the Book of Daniel.
Also, therefore Abbahu that he/she lived a few later in Palestine it frequented
the society of cultivated Romans, and it had his/her family taught Greek.
Abbahu was a manufacturer of veils for the use of women, for, as many
Amoraim, he despised to manufacture a means to live the culture the modesty of Abbahu,
with respect to his/her his/her own shows of worths that a Rabbi necessarily was not