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... Talmud ( and the Talmudic tradition ) is not simply an exercise in legalities . Rather , it treats in halakhah , or biblical verses handed down from generation to generation , all its subjects , in the words of Adin Stein- saltz , as ...
... Talmud ( and the Talmudic tradition ) is not simply an exercise in legalities . Rather , it treats in halakhah , or biblical verses handed down from generation to generation , all its subjects , in the words of Adin Stein- saltz , as ...
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... Talmud and the Talmudic tradition , everything which is not halakhah ( verses handed down by the sages ) or explication of halakhah , is aggadah , or explanation of verses from which practical halakhic conclusions cannot be derived , as ...
... Talmud and the Talmudic tradition , everything which is not halakhah ( verses handed down by the sages ) or explication of halakhah , is aggadah , or explanation of verses from which practical halakhic conclusions cannot be derived , as ...
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... Talmudic studies beginning three thousand years ago . At about the time of the end of the First Temple , we find among the Greeks the rise of the pre - Socratics . Like the Jewish sages , the pre - Socratics make no distinction between ...
... Talmudic studies beginning three thousand years ago . At about the time of the end of the First Temple , we find among the Greeks the rise of the pre - Socratics . Like the Jewish sages , the pre - Socratics make no distinction between ...
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Orthodox Heterodox Paradox | 15 |
The Degradation of Money | 27 |
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