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Mar 24

First, I’ll take note of an announcement from Sefaria that they added RAMBI to the Web Pages connections. Their hyperlinked example goes to a pasuk in Tanach: Very nice! So far someone kvetched (and I haven’t seen) that they don’t appear to have any links on Mishnah or Talmud…

Mar 24

On Shabbos, I learn maseches Megilla with a chabura, and so I’ve once again encountered this gemara, so that is a good enough reason to write this, about the halachic legitimacy of the Ashkenazic pronunciation for tefillah and krias haTorah. There are folks out there, people or…

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Occasionally we encounter Sumchos, a student of Rabbi Meir, citing his teacher. Here are the counts of Sumchos (including with Rabbi Meir): and here is coupled with משום רבי מאיר: The numbers are a bit off, because Sefaria double- or triple-counts. For instance, the Mishnah (4…

Mar 23

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I received this image via WhatsApp the other day, and I just don’t get it. I see it also on the 5 Towns Central website — though I have no idea who they…

Mar 22

Losing a patronymic

Mar 22

I recently was taken off the waiting list for Bing Chat which I think uses GPT-4 combined with search, and I decided to test it out. Generally speaking…

Mar 21

and other girsological issues

Mar 20

on Vayakhel-Pekudei and elsewhere

Mar 19

Todos? Todros? Theodosius?

Mar 17

Again catching up after Purim, this was my Nazir-related article in the Jewish Link this last Shabbos. It is a further drill-down into Rabbi Yossi…

Mar 16

At the very end of yesterday’s daf, Nazir 50b, there was a strange teiku. Thus: אֲמַר לֵיהּ רַב שִׁימִי בַּר אַדָּא לְרַב פָּפָּא: מִמַּאי דְּהַאי…

Mar 15

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