Scribal Error
Joshua WaxmanGirsology and Talmudic Biography
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Rav Achai is ‘Parich’
On today’s daf, Bechorot 6a (via my Girsology website), there is a disparity between our Talmudic text with parich Rav Achai and the quotation in Rashi of that text which is matkif lah Rav Acha.
The difference is both in the Sage mentioned...
With Whom Does Rabbi Chanina Interact?
Today’s daf, Bechorot 5b:
According to the displayed Sefaria text, Rabbi Chanina says: I asked Rabbi Eliezer in the great study hall. However, this is corrected to Rabbi Eleazar by Masoret Hashas.
Why?
Plain Rabbi Chanina is assumed to b...
Taste and Substance - full article
Still catching up! Sorry, work demands are precluding me from regular posts at the moment, but we do have this backlog of articles. My Jewish Link column follow:
Can taste (ta’am) exist in some material absent any actual substance (...
Apikolos the Plausible Tanna -- full article
Still playing some catch-up (including catching up on emails and comments I’ve received), but here is another recent Jewish Link article.
Agra, father-in-law of Rabbi Abba, appears in two sugyot in the Talmud. In Menachot 29b, he ha...
Rav Kahana ate based on his wife
In today’s daf, Chullin 132, we have Rav Kahana who ate the kohanic gifts based on his wife, alongside Rav Pappa and Rav Yeimar. That strongly suggests he was not a kohen.
See Tosafot who identifies this with the exiled Rav Kahana, thus Ra...
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