“The third element of the Tosafist enterprise, and the final stage chronologically, was the process of editing”
The third element of the Tosafist enterprise, and the final stage chronologically, was the...
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“…when operating as an editor, a Tosafist seldom introduced new material into the text”
A great challenge facing those who sought to edit the integrated commentaries was the...
“Rabbenu Tam altered the text of a blessing that had been in use for probably a thousand years”
When someone gets married, Ketubot 7b tells us that the following words appear in...
“The Tosafist redactions that emerged in the late thirteenth century were edited commentaries that contained the integrated teachings of the Tosafist masters of the past century and a half”
The Tosafist redactions that emerged in the late thirteenth century were edited commentaries that...
“The strength of Ri’s lectures was exactly the fact that he not only conscientiously worked off of a rich tradition, but also…”
The strength of Ri’s lectures was exactly the fact that he not only conscientiously...
Rabbenu Tam “forged his own path through the vast Talmud, and his personality stands at the fore of independent Tosafist dialectics”
Although Riba’s commentary is the earliest extant representative of the initial stage of the...
“For the independent early Tosafists the Talmud text itself was the focal point of study…”
The independence of early Tosafist works notwithstanding, it is important to realize that talmudic...
“The first two elements of the Tosafist enterprise—i.e., (1) independent analysis and (2) integration of earlier teachings—were the…”
The first two elements of the Tosafist enterprise—i.e., (1) independent analysis and (2) integration...
“The efforts of the early Tosafists yielded independent commentaries that contained the teachings of individual Tosafist masters”
The efforts of the early Tosafists yielded independent commentaries that contained the teachings of...
“After identifying contradictions and relevant discussions, the early Tosafists turned to resolution of the contradictions and application to the relevant discussions”
After identifying contradictions and relevant discussions, the early Tosafists turned to resolution of the...