The Society for the Interpretation of Talmud has published Aaron Amit’s commentary on the fourth chapter of Bavli Pesahim, Makom She-Nahagu. This volume, as well as the others already published, is available for purchase from Rubin Mass.
The Babylonian Talmud is now available for users of Accordance software. See here for details. The text is from the editio princeps (Venice, 1520-1523). They have also reformatted Jacob Neusner et al.’s English translation to better work with the original. This is great news for this snowy day. There are [...]
So far AJS 2009 is going well. Because of weather-related travel issues there seems to be a smaller crowd, with no small number of people having to cancel their presentations. I also noticed that most of the book publishers are giving pretty small discounts. A few are giving discounts of 30%, but [...]
Part I, Part II
Found throughout the literature which discusses whether a blessing is recited over the lighting of shabbat candles, there are a number of “phantom sources,” sources which aren’t found in the extant literature. The first example of a “phantom sources” is from Abraham ha-Yarhi’s Sefer Ha-Manhig. In Yitzhak Rafael’s edition this [...]
Mary Kate Hurley has a very interesting post at In the Middle, “Is There a Methodology in this Class.” From the title, it is not surprisingly in response to a talk by Stanley Fish. The post raises a number of very important questions which hopefully many who study Talmudic and Rabbinic literature critically [...]
My teacher Prof. Neil Danzig, in his comment to this post, reminded me that Rashi’s commentary to Moed Katan that is found in the standard editions of the Talmud is not Rashi’s. Whether Rashi ever wrote a commentary to Moed Katan is subject to some disagreement among scholars. See here (Hebrew) for a [...]
I just came across this interesting comment by Rashi on a mishnah.
תלמוד בבלי מסכת מועד קטן דף יט עמוד א
משנה. הקובר את מתו שלשה ימים קודם לרגל – בטלה הימנו גזרת שבעה, שמונה – בטלו הימנו גזרת שלשים. מפני שאמרו: שבת עולה ואינה מפסקת. רגלים – מפסיקין ואינן עולין. רבי אליעזר אומר: משחרב בית [...]
For over one hundred years scholars have been arguing about the different recensions of the Geonic work Halakhot Gedolot. Robert Brody described the problematic textual situation.
The textual situation is very complicated and has yet to be explored in the requisite depth. The only version available for several centuries was the editio princeps (Venice 1548), [...]
See here for a new update from Hebrew Books. There are the usual gems. Here are some.
1. Saul Lieberman’s Yerushalmi Kif-Shuto
2. Louis Ginzberg, Perushim ve-Huddim be-Yerushalmi
3. Jastrow’s dictionary
4. Parts of Aptowitzer’s edition of Sefer Ha-Raviah, but also his very important Mavo Le-Sefer ha-Raviah.
Rabbi Yehoshua Hutner z”l, one of the editors of the Encyclopedia Talmudit, has passed away at the age of 96. (hat tip) See here for more with an emphasis on the Habad angle. In addition to the monumental Encyclopedia Talmudit, Rabbi Hutner and Yad ha-Rav Herzog have also done important work in the [...]
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