Creator Bio
Ephraim of Regensburg
1110–1175
Ephraim ben Isaac of Regensburg was a member of the Jewish court (bet din) in Regensburg and the author of numerous talmudic writings and several liturgical poems. He studied with Jacob ben Meir (1100–1071; Rabbenu Tam) in France, and several of his halakhic letters are preserved in Rabbenu Tam’s Sefer ha-yas-har (The Upright Book). At some point, Ephraim became embroiled in a legal dispute in Speyer and moved to Regensburg. He wrote Tosafot and a commentary, almost entirely lost, on the parts of the Talmud dealing with tort law. Some of his liturgical poems lament the 1137 massacre of Jews in Regensburg and the tribulations that Jews faced during the Second Crusade.
Content by Ephraim of Regensburg
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Even if the quarter-dinar
Even if the quarter dinar for the bird offering is gone,even if God has emptied out the tent where he used to dwell,let us not perish on this account,for we still have an old father!Treat us favorably…
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Exchange on Menstrual Practices
Question: Please, my teacher, explain to me something in relation to the Gemara in b. Ketubbot [4a]:
And similarly, a groom whose wife began to menstruate at the time of the wedding…