Week in Review
A quick review of the posts of this past week.
Are Flying Camels Real? This summary post of my Jewish Link article explains how Chazal did not think gamla parcha actually meant a literal flying camel. It is a really fast camel. It may be a Persian camel or wild and crazy camel, depending on variant texts.
After escaping this camel, we should say Birchas HaGamal Folded Over Derasha considers a version of a derasha, namely reading vehipilo as vehichpilo, as put forth in Artscroll and found in the Munich manuscript.
For Acharei Mot, how Eliyahu Munk effectively censors a Seforno on the role of lots, so that it is divine predestination rather than a form of prophecy conducted only by the righteous.
I reflect a bit on the transition from Makkot to Shevuot, and about how Makkot is considered a tractate by the Talmudic Narrator. Also, is there some grouping mechanism in play to link the first two chapters of Shevuot (which isn’t about Shevuot) to the rest.
In Non-Savoraic Stamma, I consider how a local anonymous sugya is not so anonymous, and might be conveyed by Rav Ashi to Ravina; and the same regarding an anonymous sugya in Kiddushin which Ravina and Ameimar reference. I also consider a bit about the derashot of Rabbi Akiva and Rabbi Yishmael, and how a single Tanna can channel both of them.
Finally, my Jewish Link article for this week stays in Makkot. It pertains to Rav Malkiyah and Rav Malkiyo, who are Amoraim of different scholastic generations. Yet, Rav Pappa and another Amora concerned with preserving attribution traditions argue about which belongs to which.
Shabbat shalom!