Sleep in the Tosefta II: Nezikin
What’s Similar Of the three occurrences of sleep in Tosefta Seder Nezikin, only one of them is similar to what…
Rabbi Drew Kaplan’s Textual Insights
What’s Similar Of the three occurrences of sleep in Tosefta Seder Nezikin, only one of them is similar to what…
Considering sleep in Tosefta, Seder Kodashim has an almost word-for-word parallel to what we see in the Mishnah (mKeritot 2.6):…
The key concern for Seder Nezikin is damages, therefore culpability is a key concern: Culpability One who is sleeping has…
One of the special practices of the holiday of Sukkot is the taking of several arboreal species, as commanded in…
In the tractates of the Mishnah we have previously considered (see Seder Moed, Seder Taharot, and Seder Kodashim), sleeping in…
Continuing on in our investigation into sleep into the Mishnah (having previously considered Seder Moed and Seder Taharot), sleep appears…
Having discussed sleep in the Mishnah in Seder Moed, I now turn to Seder Taharot, the seder with the least amount of sleep…
Leading off the fourth chapter of Avot is the following (Avot 4.1): בן זומא אומר: איזה הוא חכם? הלמד מכל…
Originally researched and worked on in the summer of 2017,[1] I have finally tweaked this piece and am publishing it.…
Rav Yehudah was a leading rabbinic figure in Persia in the third century (220-299) who often directly quoted his teachers,…