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Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up

Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up

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Will the Real Shas Kattan Please Stand Up[1] Shmuel Lubin Shmuel Lubin is a doctoral candidate in biology and creator of “The Rishonim” podcast. There is an old tradition commonly referenced in the yeshiva community that Masekhet Ketubot is the “Shas Kattan” of Talmud Bavli, that is, it contains ideas that connect to just about every other area of Shas (short for “Shisha Sidrei,” all six orders of the Mishnah). The source and importance of this idea is the subject…

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From Print to Pixel: Digital Editions of the Talmud Bavli

From Print to Pixel: Digital Editions of the Talmud Bavli

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From Print to Pixel: Digital Editions of the Talmud Bavli Ezra Brand Ezra Brand is an independent researcher who resides in Tel Aviv. He has an MA from Revel Graduate School at Yeshiva University in Medieval Jewish History, and has studied in the Talmud Department of Bar-Ilan University. He has contributed a number of times previously to the Seforim Blog (tag), and a selection of his research can be found at his Substack blog. His most recent major work is…

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The Longest Masechta is …

The Longest Masechta is …

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The Longest Masechta is … By Ari Z. Zivotofsky As Jews, we are often intrigued with trivia about our holy books, and the more esoteric and harder to verify, the better. An example of such trivia is the longest masechta in shas. While it is relatively easy to verify that the longest masechta in terms of pages in the Vilna Shas is Bava Batra, with 176 pages,[1] until modern times it was much more difficult to determine which is the…

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“Milta De’Bedichuta”: Some Playful Parodies of the Talmud in the Modern Period

“Milta De’Bedichuta”: Some Playful Parodies of the Talmud in the Modern Period

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“Milta De’Bedichuta”: Some Playful Parodies of the Talmud in the Modern Period By Ezra Brand 6-Mar-23 Ezra Brand is an independent researcher based in Tel Aviv. He has an MA from Revel Graduate School at Yeshiva University in Medieval Jewish History, where he focused his research on 13th and 14th century sefirotic Kabbalah. He is interested in using digital and computational tools in historical research. He has contributed a number of times previously to the Seforim Blog (tag), and a…

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Daf Yomi: Seforim on Yevomos and R’ Eliyhau Gutmacher

Daf Yomi: Seforim on Yevomos and R’ Eliyhau Gutmacher

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Daf Yomi: Seforim on Yevamos and R’ Eliyhau Gutmacher By Eliezer Brodt Daf Yomi just began Yevomos Masseches. This week I had a conversation with Rabbi Moshe Schwed of All Daf. The purpose of the conversation was to briefly highlight some of the rishonim and acharonim “out there” on this messechtah, adding some anecdotes of interest about them. It is available for viewing here and here: A few weeks earlier I gave a presentation, also part of this new series,…

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Daf Yomi: Seforim on Chagigah

Daf Yomi: Seforim on Chagigah

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Daf Yomi: Seforim on Chagigah By Eliezer Brodt Daf Yomi just began learning Masseches Chagigah. Earlier this week I had a conversation with Rabbi Moshe Schwed of All Daf. The purpose of the conversation was to briefly highlight some of the rishonim and acharonim “out there” on this messechtah, adding some tidbits of interest about them. We recorded it and it’s available for viewing here and here. It is only 32 minutes long. Many aspects could have been discussed at…

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