Text: The “Promised Land” – Babylonia?

Floor 2 Floor 2
Land of Israel, Babylonia, Alexandria (6th Century BCE - 11th Century CE) (2.2) Land of Israel, Babylonia, Alexandria (6th Century BCE - 11th Century CE) (2.2)
Exhibit 2.2.27 Exhibit 2.2.27

Text Panel

“From the day the Temple was destroyed, the Holy One, blessed is he, has nothing in His world apart from the four cubits of halakha (Jewish law)”
– Babylonian Talmud, Berachot 8a

Additional Reading

ANU- Jewish community of Iraq

Themes and Connections:

babylonian talmud, quate, Temple

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