Amoraim, Babylonian Talmud, Talmud “The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic jurisprudence and legal conceptualization” Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 August 2020 The fourth century was a period of great innovation in the history of Talmudic...
Menstrual Impurity, Talmud “Rabbi Zera merely describes a stringent practice which Babylonian Jewish women had taken upon themselves” Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 April 2018 This term, first used by medieval commentators (see Zimmerman, p. 27, note 6), is,...
Hanukah, Talmud “The transformation of Hanukkah, as attested in the Babylonian Talmud, serves as an example of a religious dynamic stimulated by the arrival of new ‘religious knowledge'” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 December 2016 Religious tradition is adept at adaptation. The Babylonian Talmud, in particular, through analogy, and...
Hanukah, Talmud “…the focus of the holiday celebration has shifted from the synagogue to the domestic candle” Author Drew Kaplan Date 26 December 2016 The Babylonian tradition involved only one light. The tradition of gradually increasing or decreasing...
Hanukah, Talmud “Judging from the volume and innovative quality of source material in the Babylonian Talmud in contrast with the rest of the rabbinic corpora, the Babylonian contribution would appear to have been quite decisive in shaping the holiday observances in the direction of emphasizing the kindling of light(s)” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 December 2016 Judging from the volume and innovative quality of source material in the Babylonian Talmud...
Hanukah, Talmud “It is the Babylonian Talmud that collects the traditions on Hanukkah and creates a lengthy, detailed and coherent discourse on the holiday…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 December 2016 The rabbinic sources on Hanukkah, which are not numerous, are unevenly dispersed among the...
Talmud “It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers of the Mishnah…” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2016 It is exceedingly difficult to differentiate on formal or stylistic grounds among the layers...
Talmud “In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between אני אומר used in contradiction, and שאני אומר used to introduce a reason for an opinion” Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 December 2016 In discussing the use of אני in TL, it is necessary to distinguish between...
Talmud Differences of a famous midrash about Name, Language, and Clothing Author Drew Kaplan Date 27 November 2016 Leviticus Rabbah 32:5 (M. Margoliot ed., Jerusalem 1958, vol. 4, p. 747) lists four...
Talmud “Sometimes in Tannaitic Literature, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are not connected by relationship to a single man, nor by a common subject) as the essential connective element of a relatively large chapter” Author Drew Kaplan Date 23 November 2016 …Sometimes in TL, the relationship to a particular day appears (when the elements are...