Concept tag
#talmud
-
“Seventy faces” and “no verse leaves its plain sense”: the rabbis held both at once
My Tuesday Talmud class tripped over this last month and I have not stopped thinking about it. On one side, there is the midrashic saying that the Torah has seventy faces. A verse can bear many readings, and the tradition records them…
Started by Rabbi Eliana Gutman4 replies190 views -
Keeping the losing opinion on the page: is disagreement inside a tradition as deep as disagreement between traditions?
In my Tuesday Talmud class we recently read the story in tractate Eruvin about the houses of Hillel and Shammai, who argued for years until a heavenly voice declared that "these and these are the words of the living God", and that…
Started by Rabbi Eliana Gutman5 replies191 views