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Mar 24
Rabbi Yochanan's BeardFirst, 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
Suff NoogiesOn 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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Only SymmachusOccasionally 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…
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