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03:54

Q: Please explain the end of Tosefta Eduyot

At the end of Tosefta Eduyot 3:4 it states: One who has students, they call him rabbi. When his students were forgotten, they called him rabban. When both of these are forgotten, they call him by his name. What does this mean? There are many examples of Rabbis with the appellation Raban (such a...

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07:16

Q: How a person become a rabbi around 1 CE?

Given the general illiteracy, the lack of public libraries, the high cost of Torah copies and writing materials, how a person becomes a rabbi in 1 CE? Given the costs and reading/writing requisites it looks like it's a path only for sons of well-off families, living in a major city. I have read I...

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Rabbi Kaii

12:29

@CandidMoe of the schottenstein ?

@IsaacMoses, @msh210, would either of you kindly edit my comment to replace the word "halacha" with "serious issue"? I think DoubleAA has missed (or ignored?) my request to do so judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/146219/…

Candid Moe

12:46

@RabbiKaii The notes in the Biblia de Jerusalén. No idea who schottenstein is?

Rabbi Kaii

@CandidMoe and I have no idea what that is lol.

but cool

Candid Moe

@RabbiKaii It's a spanish translation from the french translation from the best Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek copies of the original books. It's highly regarded in the spanish-speaking world,

In 1943 Pope Pius XII issued an encyclical letter, Divino afflante Spiritu, which encouraged Catholics to translate the scriptures from the Hebrew and Greek texts, rather than from Jerome's Latin Vulgate. As a result, a number of Dominicans and other scholars at the École Biblique in Jerusalem translated the scriptures into French. The product of these efforts was published as La Bible de Jérusalem in 1956.

Rabbi Kaii

13:05

@CandidMoe interesting.

Candid Moe

I want to known more about the development of the rabbi institution. What reading do you recommend?

Rabbi Kaii

@CandidMoe sefaria.org/… is essential

Candid Moe

Rambam is Maimonides ?

Rabbi Kaii

yes @CandidMoe (btw, please dont refrain from @mentioning me every comment to get my attention)

I am not annoyed by notifications, and in fact, without them, I tend to not even notice someone is speaking to me :)

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Rabbi Kaii

19:03

@HotStuff not really a comment, more of a chat: It's hard to imagine investing all the effort in memorising vast quantities of information verbatim, without also putting in the small effort to also learn how to read and write. It's not like there was any reason not to, nor would it have been discouraged for any reasons I am aware of? Would love to know though

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Candid Moe

20:06

@RabbiKaii Texts conceived to be memorized are better estructured like poetry, as structure and rhyme reinforce memory. That's the case with The Iliad and The Odyssey, which were transmited orally before putting in writting. That seems not be the case with Torah.

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20:22

Q: Somekhos's opinion "money which is in dispute - is to be split" vs Beit Shammai

We know that Somekhos holds that (Baba Kamma 5:1 - Gmara ad loc): ממון המוטל בספק חולקין Property of uncertain ownership is divided by the two parties However, in Baba Batra 9:8: נָפַל הַבַּיִת עָלָיו וְעַל אָבִיו אוֹ עָלָיו וְעַל מוֹרִישָׁיו, וְהָיְתָה עָלָיו כְּתֻבַּת אִשָּׁה וּבַעַל חוֹב,...