His writings demonstrate mastery of the Tanakh, the Talmud, and the rabbinical commentaries and codes of Jewish law.
His identity remains sketchy in the Torah itself, but it is elaborated in rabbinical commentary.
The Gemara is the part of the Talmud that contains rabbinical commentaries and analysis of the Mishnah.
(The title, suggested by a passage in the Mishna, a codification of ancient rabbinical commentaries, refers to the preciousness of each individual.)
Besides the opera, he wrote a symphony, "Midrash Esther," inspired by rabbinical commentary and entirely separate from the operatic score.
An additional distinctive semicursive typeface was, and still is, used for rabbinical commentary on religious texts when Hebrew and Yiddish appear on the same page.
Unfortunately, the Talmud and the rabbinical commentaries upon it contained passages hostile to Christ and the Christians.
These laws are based upon the Books of Leviticus and Deuteronomy of the Torah and in the extensive body of rabbinical commentaries (the Talmud).
The Talmud is a book of oral law, with rabbinical commentaries and interpretations.
There are biblical verses and rabbinical commentaries that point to such a possibility.