Guide
Ancient Rabbinic Halakhah
2nd–6th Centuries
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By Carol Bakhos
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The Mishnah on Halakhic Disputes
How would they do it [reap the omer]? The agents of the court used to go out on the day before the festival and tie the unreaped grain in bunches to make it easier to reap. All the inhabitants of the…
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The Talmud on Halakhic Disputes
The sages taught: [There was] an incident involving a Sadducee [who was appointed as high priest] who prepared the incense outside [and then] brought [it into the holy of holies]. Upon his emergence…
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Sifre on Oral and Written Torahs
They [the descendants of Levi] shall teach your statutes to Jacob, [ . . . ] your instructions [toratekha] to Israel (Deuteronomy 33:10): This teaches that…
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The Talmud on Oral and Written Torahs
R. Levi bar Ḥama said [that] R. Simeon ben Lakish said: [God said to Moses, “Ascend to me on the mountain and be there], and I will give you the stone tablets and…
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Tosefta on Biblical and Rabbinic Law
1. When the sages entered the vineyard in Yavneh, they said: In the future, there will come a time when a person will seek a teaching from the teachings of the Torah and he will not find it, or from…
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The Talmud on Biblical and Rabbinic Law
R. Ḥisda said to one of the sages who would arrange the aggadah before him: Did you hear what [the meaning of] new and old (Song of Songs 7:14) [is]? He said to him: These [the new] are the [more]…