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Responsum: On an Accusation of Sexual Harassment
[Question: What says our honorable, exalted master, Moses, the great rabbi among God’s people, the prince of all Israel—may his name endure forever!—about the case of an upstanding Jewish man, a…
Critical Notes on the Mishneh Torah
Critical Notes on Maimonides, Mishneh Torah, Laws of the Principles of the Torah 5:5, Laws of Prayer and the Priestly Blessing 3:5, Laws of Rest on the Tenth of Tishre (Yom Kippur) 1:5, Laws of Rest on a Holiday 1:1, Laws of Marriage 3:20
Women who were told by idol worshipers, “Give us one of you, and we will defile her. And if not, we will defile all of you,” let them all be defiled. [ . . . ] However, if they single [someone] out…
Notes from a Class on al-Fāsī: On the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bava Kamma
Notes from a Class on al-Fāsī on b. Bava Kamma 23b
It is taught [in a baraita]: He who enters the courtyard of a property owner without permission, [if the owner’s ox gores him and he dies, the ox is stoned, while the owner is exempt from paying…
Notes from a Class: On the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Bava Meẓ‘ia
Notes from a Class on b. Bava Meẓi‘a 2b
And we heard from our master, in the beginning of Bava Meẓi‘a, when they say:
[In a dispute over ownership of an object, can the mishnah be referring to a case of] buying and selling? One could find…
Responsum: On the Rebellious Wife
A 9th-century discussion of the enactment concerning a “rebellious wife,” a woman who refuses to fulfill her household duties or to maintain a sexual relationship with her husband.
On the Babylonian Talmud, Tractate Avodah Zarah
Tosafot on b. Avodah Zarah 19b
A person should always divide his years into thirds: one third for the Bible, one third for the Mishnah, and one third for Talmud. Does a person know how long he will live? When we said this, rather…