Guide
Communal Ownership
1st–6th Centuries
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Communal Self-Government
t. Bava Metsi‘a 11:23
The residents of a city may compel one another to build a synagogue for themselves and to buy a book of the Torah and the Prophets for themselves. And the residents of a city have the right to set…
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An Artisans’ Synagogue
y. Megillah 4:5, 75b
R. Jonah and R. Yosi went to visit the brother of Judah bar Tammuza, the relative of R. Yosi ben Ḥanina, in the synagogue of the neck-cloth makers.
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Sale and Purchase of a Synagogue
b. Megillah 26a–b
Residents of a town who sold the town square [may purchase a synagogue with the proceeds]. Rabbah bar Bar Ḥana said [that] R. Yoḥanan said: This is the statement of R. Menaḥem bar Yosi, cited…