Scribal Error
Joshua WaxmanGirsology and Talmudic Biography
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Rav Huna's Relative Stature
In Chullin 14a, we have this:
מַתְנִי׳ הַשּׁוֹחֵט בְּשַׁבָּת וּבְיוֹם הַכִּיפּוּרִים, אַף עַל פִּי שֶׁמִּתְחַיֵּיב בְּנַפְשׁוֹ – שְׁחִיטָתוֹ כְּשֵׁרָה.
MISHNA: In the case of one who slaughters an animal on Shabbat or on Yom Kippur,...
The Practice of Knife Inspection -- full article
Here is my Jewish Link article for this coming week.
In Chullin 17b, Rav Chisda, a third-generation Babylonian Amora, provides a Biblical basis for inspecting the knife used for shechita. He points to I Shmuel 14:34, where Shaul tel...
Rav Huna Kamma
In yesterday’s daf, Chullin 13a, Shmuel asks a question to Rav Huna.
בְּעָא מִינֵּיהּ שְׁמוּאֵל מֵרַב הוּנָא: מִנַּיִן לַמִּתְעַסֵּק בְּקָדָשִׁים שֶׁהוּא פָּסוּל? שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר: ״וְשָׁחַט אֶת בֶּן הַבָּקָר״, שֶׁתְּהֵא שְׁחִיטָה לְשֵׁם בֶּ...
Nicholas Kristof and the "Admitted Racist" Lie
Over the years, I have pointed this out privately, in one-on-one conversations, but haven’t committed it to blog. Recent events provided the impetus. This pertains to the claim that Donald Trump admitted that stories portraying him as a rac...
Did Rava Join the Opposition to His Teacher?
Chullin deals particularly with laws of shechita, but underlying principles have wide application to all of halacha. Chullin 10a reports on a dispute between Rav Huna and Rav Chisda. Rav Huna was a student of Rav in the second generation of...
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