Commentary on the Mishnah
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Sefer dinim, Chapter 3, 6, 8, Conclusion (selections)
III.
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Commentary on the Mishnah: Prefatory Poem
This book is composed about the Law of Moses,
clarifying its rules and its just law,
in accordance with the law that our elders transmitted,
its builders, who strengthened its construction.
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Minute Prohibited Substances
Isur mashehu, Chapter 1
R. Joshua ben Levi says: All prohibited [substances] in the Torah [are nullified by mixing them with permitted substances that are] sixty [times their…
Decree on Menstrual Purity
Build up, build up, clear the way! Remove a stumbling block from my people’s way (Isaiah 57:14).
We, the scholars living in Egypt at this time, say: When we were brought together in this region from…
Mishneh Torah
The Mishneh Torah (Repetition of the Law) is a monumental legal compendium, and the most influential rabbinic work of the medieval period. Written in the 1170s in Egypt, the Mishneh Torah was…
Book of God-Fearers
Sefer yire’im, vol. 2, page 6, section 239
You shall fear your God and observe that which He commanded in Parashat Shoftim: There shall not be found among you anyone who passes his son or his daughter through the fire, one who uses…