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Joshua Waxman

Girsology and Talmudic Biography

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Bechorot 28 Thoughts

I am NOT using an LLM to write this post, despite some other used recently in which I used Claude. I can definitely see the temptation. I look at a daf and see ten ideas that I would otherwise lose. Each could have been a fully fleshed out...

7 days ago
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A Kav, but Clean (full article, but AI-assisted)

We have finally caught up to the schedule of Jewish Link articles for my column, The Person and the Page. This is a follow-up to last week’s article, which you could read here:

Indeed, this could have been a single article, but would have...

8 days ago
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Why Mention the Rainbow?

Note: this post was crafted by Claude, under my direction.

After the Flood, God tells Noach (Bereishit 9:12–13):

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8 days ago
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Rabba or Rava as eating impure terumah

An item in today’s daf, Bechorot 27:

אָמַר שְׁמוּאֵל: תְּרוּמַת חוּצָה לָאָרֶץ — בְּטֵילָה בְּרוֹב. רַבָּה מְבַטְּלָהּ בְּרוֹב, וְאוֹכֵל לָהּ בִּימֵי טוּמְאָתוֹ.

With regard to teruma from outside of Eretz Yisrael, Shmuel says: Teru...

8 days ago
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Who Is Asking? Kayin, Lemech, and the Missing Question Mark

Note: this post was crafted by Claude, under my direction and refining guidance.

A Torah scroll has no question marks, no exclamation points, and no quotation marks. A speech verb like וַיֹּאמֶר tells us that someone spoke, but not in what...

9 days ago
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