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Rav Sheshet Feigns Ignorance
In Shevuot 45, there’s a discussion of Shmuel’s statement about a worker and boss — that the hiring must have been done with witnesses, for the worker…
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Lending Out My Midrash Says (full article)
Generally speaking, in Chazal’s perspective, Oral Torah and Written Torah are distinct and should remain in their primary format.
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Reish Lakish Drinks Again (with article summary)
About a week back, I wrote an article, “Rabbi Yitzchak as Reish Lakish’s Student”.
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Shutting Up Until Korech
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Sefaria's New Gender-Sensitive Tanach
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The Scorpion and the Frog
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Pumbedita and the Silk Road
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Luminous Stones and Peshat in Midrash
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Harmonizing Midrashim
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Your Personal Trumpets? Also, Beha'alotecha Roundup
On my old blog, parshablog, I wrote about 44 posts about the sidra of Beha’alotecha, with the last roundup available here. There are two additional…
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The Prohibition of Mocking Greta?
I generally stay away from politics, but I saw an interesting halachic discussion online that ties into how to interpret categorical statements of…
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Rav Ovadia Yosef and Looking at Female Litigants
As we read recently in masechet Shevuot, we need to treat litigants equally.
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The Hidden Drashot of Midvar Sheker Tirchak
There was an awesome brayta which spanned Shevuot 31. It seemingly just set up a bunch of scenarios of things someone should not do, and then explained…
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Abaye cannot speak with Rav Yehuda
In Shevuot 35a, Rav Yehuda says something and Abaye reacts.
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Naso: Animals or Wagons?
Here’s a brief correction of Eliyahu Munk’s translation of Rashbam on the sidra of Naso.
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Bemidbar: "Chayav Mita" as Non-Literal
I didn’t get to post this last week, so here it is.
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