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The description of a vineyard in the Hebrew Scripture gives us an accurate picture of a vineyard in Old Israel but also of a vineyard as metaphor. Grapes and wine are metaphors for the relationship between God and Israel, the Torah as Word of God, instruction and Covenant and their implications. Yavne, a Hebrew centre for instruction and rabbinic authority, is mentioned in the Babylonian Talmud most often referring to rabbis who taught in the „vineyard of Yavne". Moreover, the space intended for scholars meeting...