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Sleep in the Tosefta II: Nezikin

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April 27, 2020 0

What’s Similar Of the three occurrences of sleep in Tosefta Seder Nezikin, only one of them is similar to what…

Sleep in the Tosefta I: Kodashim

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April 26, 2020 0

Considering sleep in Tosefta, Seder Kodashim has an almost word-for-word parallel to what we see in the Mishnah (mKeritot 2.6):…

Sleep in the Mishnah V: Seder Nezikin

By Rabbi Drew
April 22, 2020 0

The key concern for Seder Nezikin is damages, therefore culpability is a key concern: Culpability One who is sleeping has…

Lulav-Waving in the Mishnah

By Rabbi Drew
October 16, 2019 0

One of the special practices of the holiday of Sukkot is the taking of several arboreal species, as commanded in…

Sleep in the Mishnah IV: Seder Nashim

By Rabbi Drew
October 7, 2019 0

In the tractates of the Mishnah we have previously considered (see Seder Moed, Seder Taharot, and Seder Kodashim), sleeping in…

Sleep in the Mishnah III: Seder Kodashim

By Rabbi Drew
September 10, 2019 0

Continuing on in our investigation into sleep into the Mishnah (having previously considered Seder Moed and Seder Taharot), sleep appears…

Sleep in the Mishnah II: Seder Taharot

By Rabbi Drew
September 2, 2019 0

Having discussed sleep in the Mishnah in Seder Moed, I now turn to Seder Taharot, the seder with the least amount of sleep…

The Floating Expounding of Psalms 128.2

By Rabbi Drew
August 5, 2019 0

Leading off the fourth chapter of Avot is the following (Avot 4.1): בן זומא אומר: איזה הוא חכם? הלמד מכל…

Rabbi Yehudah HaNasi’s Enactment in the Fields

By Rabbi Drew
July 29, 2019 0

Originally researched and worked on in the summer of 2017,[1] I have finally tweaked this piece and am publishing it.…

Initial Considerations of Occurrences of Incidents in Which Rav Yehudah Quotes Rav and Shmuel

By Rabbi Drew
July 23, 2019 1

Rav Yehudah was a leading rabbinic figure in Persia in the third century (220-299) who often directly quoted his teachers,…

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