A new Facebook group started up last week to discuss Talmud and other rabbinic literature from a historical-contextual perspective. “The Historical-Contextual Beit Midrash” was created eight days ago by David Staum, having initially sharing the idea on another Facebook group,...
Thank God we are not stuck with simply printed editions of the Talmud and that we have manuscripts, as well, otherwise, we would be missing a statement of Rabbi Akiva‘s. Found on bArakhin 16b, there is a beraita about the...
Eight years ago, in my second year of rabbinical school, I got very fascinated by a particular topic and subsequently endeavored in much research. While I had hoped (and still hope) to write an article on the topic, it seems...
Having looked at previous orders of the Tosefta to see which amongst the sages have their statements contested by The Sages (for instance, see here), it’s time to look at the final order in the Tosefta and here is the...
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