The Mishna in Horayos (1.3) describes a possibility of the Sanhedrin annulling a "whole body of Halachah" from the Torah, such idolatry or Shabbos, and concludes that "they are exempt": "הוֹרוּ בֵית דִּין לַעֲקֹר אֶת כָּל הַגּוּף, אָמְרוּ, אֵין נִדָּה בַתּוֹרָה, אֵין שַׁבָּת בַּתּוֹרָה, אֵין עֲב...

On the verse (Beresheet 10:2): "The descendants of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras." Abarbanel writes: "והבן הז' הוא תירס ממנו יצאו אנשי טראסיי"א אנשים אכזריים והיא בארץ שיטיי"א ומהם היו מלכיות רוסיי"א ואינגלא"טירא." "And the seventh son is Tiras, out of which ca...

Following my back-and-forth with @RabbiKaii I suddenly realized that the reinstitution of a functioning Sanherdin is not mentioned in Rambam's vision of the Messianic times (Hil. Melachim 11.1 and on). "הַמֶּלֶךְ הַמָּשִׁיחַ עָתִיד לַעֲמֹד וּלְהַחְזִיר מַלכוּת דָּוִד לְיָשְׁנָהּ לַמֶּמְשָׁלָה הָ...

The Gemmorah in Sanhedrin 56b learns that Adam was given the 7 Noahide laws from the verse "וַיְצַוי"א עַל־הָאָדָם לֵאמֹר מִכֹּל עֵץ־הַגָּן אָכֹל תֹּאכֵל׃", that comes before the formation of animals and Eve: "From where are the Noahide mitzvot, derived? Rabbi Yoḥanan says: It is from that which...

In the gemera brachos 34a it says one is not to make any additions to prayer in the first three and last three brachos of the amida. This is also brought down in rambam in chapter 1 of tefila and birchas kohanim that one should never change or add anything to the first and last three blessings ye...