“Why did the rabbis in the early period (for the most part) divide people based on righteousness and virtue, and in the later period based on ethnicity?”
Why did the rabbis in the early period (for the most part) divide people...
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“…studying Talmud…connects the (presumably) pluralistic ideas of the learner with the very activity in which they are engaged”
Even as the Shoah and the State of Israel were essential drivers of Greenberg...
“No talmudic discussion regards the recitation of [the Song of the Day] as anything other than temple practice”
…the daily Levitical songs (Pss 24, 48, 82, 94, 81, 93, 92) as recorded...
“A number of Rava’s rulings require intention as a necessary condition for establishing liability for both civil and ritual violations”
Where early generations of Babylonian Amoraim employed a system of strict liability in deciding...
“The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization”
The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...
“the Talmud only makes sense to the reader who has already read it; a first reading of the Talmud only happens during its second reading”
The Talmud is not a book to be read, but a book to do...
“The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical in hypothetical discourse of the Mishnah”
The term ma’aseh is the intrusion of real life events into the largely theoretical...
The Siyum HaShas “Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli”
The Event Shockingly Has Nothing to Do with the Talmud Bavli. I kind of...
“A comparison between Avot and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists underscores striking similarities and differences between the compositions…”
A comparison between Avot and Philostratus’ Lives of the Sophists underscores striking similarities and...
“Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here and there, or chameleons that change color to fit the scenery”
Philologists can sometimes forget that texts are not themselves autonomous subjects that move here...