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@DoubleAA I admit the connection is a bit tenuous, but I think some historians have hypothesized that many of the Talmud's authors may have been married to Jews, so study of the work may result in some insights into the ancient rites of that people.
@DoubleAA citing g'mara and its commentaries isn't clear-cut and it's a problem that arises in our specific domain, so it seems ok to me. It would also be on-topic at Writers (and possibly Academia).
Seriously, though: If you're writing a paper about an idiosyncratic work that's central to Judasim, and you want to know how best to refer to it, it seems reasonable to ask a community of experts on Judaism.
... plus, the very writing of that paper is more than likely an act of harbatzat haTorah.
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So, it does actually make sense that Abraham didn't keep kosher, but it's also interesting. (There's also a suggestion in the comments from anursa that it actually was kosher, but it's still interesting.)
How are we to understand the tradition that the patriarchs kept all of the mitzvot in the Torah (see for example the last mishna in Kidushin, Rashi Bereshit 32:5, etc.) in light of the many obvious logical contradictions that this would seem to imply?
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Given that there are far more people learning torah full time today than the past few centuries, why are there so few great Gedolim coming out of the yeshivot compared to previous generations?
I once heard from Rabbi Nachman Bulman zt'l "when I was a boy in NYC, in every shietble you went to the...
@DoubleAA and @IsaacMoses, I don't think the answers will be opnion-based so much as the premise is. If the OP could explain clearly what he means by a gadol and why he thinks there are fewer now than there were (when?), I think the question would be more answerable
@IsaacMoses @TRiG, I could be mistaken, but I don't believe that Halachah recognizes principles of gender followed by the mental-health community or the political LGBT community in deciding what facts to use for determining law and religious practice. Regardless of how some members of either group feels about this, my question is how Halachah views a person who has undergone the most extreme transformation to the opposite sex, whether through surgery, hormone replacement, both, or neither.
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