“Before engaging in any dialectic analysis, the Tosafists engaged in a close reading of the local passage,…”
Before engaging in any dialectic analysis, the Tosafists engaged in a close reading of...
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“The Tosafist schools set out to analyze the entire Talmud using all relevant talmudic passages as a context and backdrop for the text under scrutiny”
The Tosafists approached the talmudic text with a similar perspective: talmudic passages could be...
Rabbi Isaac of Dampierre and His Students
Ri is known to have lectured on the entire talmudic corpus and his academy...
For the Tosafists, “popular practice is 9/10 of Halakhah”
You know how possession is 9/10 of the law? The assumption here (with the Tosafists) seems to be popular practice is 9/10 of halakhah and you need to now go back and find out why.
Rabbi Josh Yuter, “Early Ashkenaz Law vs. Custom”, Yutopia Podcast #103 (14 April 2013)