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The meaning of "Korach took"

Lending out my Midrash Says (article summary)

Korach: One Donkey, or One Person's Donkey

Eponymous Attributions in Avodah Zarah

Uncensored Printings for Avodah Zarah

Eiding and Abetting (full article)

What is bothering Chizkuni? On Shelach

Rav Sheshet Feigns Ignorance

Lending Out My Midrash Says (full article)

Reish Lakish Drinks Again (with article summary)

Your Personal Trumpets? Also, Beha'alotecha Roundup

The Prohibition of Mocking Greta?

Rav Ovadia Yosef and Looking at Female Litigants

The Hidden Drashot of Midvar Sheker Tirchak

Abaye cannot speak with Rav Yehuda

Naso: Animals or Wagons?

Bemidbar: "Chayav Mita" as Non-Literal

Rabbi Yitzchak as Reish Lakish's Student (full article)

Week(s) in Review

Within an Utterance (full article)

Generalities and Specifics

Eating includes Drinking (full article)

Bechukosai: Rashbam's מלאפום

Shav and Sheker in a Single Utterance

Behar: Chizkuni's Misunderstood Mnemonic

Rabbi Yehoshua ben Korcha is not Rabbi Akiva's Son

Shevuot 14 and the Distributed Bet

Week in Review

Rav Nachman bar Rav Chisda’s Absurdities (full article)

Emor: Chizkuni's Version of Rashi Defining "Harlot"

Rav Malkiyo (article Summary)...

Rav Chisda's Attitude Regarding Rabbi Yochanan

On Sefaria, an interesting Commentary

Emor: A Misunderstood Rashbam about Mikra'ei Kodesh

Week in Review

Rav Malkiya and Rav Malkiyo (full article)

Non-Savoraic Stamma?

The Transition from Makkot to Shevuot

Acharei Mot: A Reinterpreted Seforno on the Role of Lots

Folded Over Derasha

Are Flying Camels Real?! (article summary)

Week In Review

Are Flying Camels Real?! (full article)

A Missing Brayta about Tattoos

Worrying About Flying Camels (article summary)

A Censored Seforno: Tzaraat as a Natural Disease?

Rava Hai vs Rav Achai

A Haggadah for the Entire Family: Grappling with Divine Corporeality, or Not

Dueling Stammas, and the Pnei Yehoshua

Week in Review

Rabbi Yitzchak the Tanna and his Son Rabbi Yishmael b. Rabbi Yitzchak

Shemini: How Heretics Explain Kosher Species

Beginning Makkot? Now?!

Skipping Maror?

ChatGPT & Brisker Torah: Immersing in the Yam Suf

Worrying About Flying Camels (article preview)

Shutting Up Until Korech

Ger Toshav isn't an Idolator!

Uncouth Cutheans

Rav Ashi / Stamma Fluidity?

"It is Rabbi Yossi b. Rabbi Yehuda" But in which Mishnah?

Makkot Begins, and mivami is back up!

𝅘𝅥 Hunt the Wabbit ♪ (full article)

The Last Chapter of Sanhedrin / the Beginning of Makkot (article summary)

Sanhedrin's Mnemonic

A Pesach Roundup

Shene'emar and the Camelid Off-By-One Hidden Derasha

Can ChatGPT be Trusted to Bake your Matzah?

"Blunt his teeth" is an idiom

The Last Chapter of Sanhedrin (full article)

Week in Review

Ravavahu Stands Firm (article summary)

Yeshu as a Student who Strayed

Rabbi Yochanan's Theme of Students, Colleagues, and Teachers

The (Doubtful) Niddah Upon Return Home

Several Emendations on Sanhedrin 103

Week in Review

Rabbi Yochanan's Medicine?

Ravavahu Stands Firm (article preview)

Shaving Sennacherib (article summary)

Bar Nafli, AKA Mashiach

Last Week In Review

Follow-up Sennacherib Thoughts

Rav Pappa Explains the Goosebumps

Shimon Bar Kosiva, with a Samech

Week(s) in Review

Shaving Sennacherib and Midrashic Figurativism (full article)

Nevuchad Netzar as Two Words?

Working Within Superstition

Lions, Mosquitoes , and Emergent Behavior

Lips Moving in the Grave

Flattening to Heretics

Alternative Dispute Templates, and Rabbi Nechemiah

Between Blessed be Mordechai (article summary)

Can ChatGPT drink Ad Delo Yada on your behalf?

Between Blessed be Mordechai (full article)

Ki Tisa: The Censored Speaking Golden Calf

Ki Tisa: Censored Mixtures

The Fellowship of the Golem (article summary)

Rav Mesharshiya the Savora

Who Fashioned a Golem? (article summary)

The Fellowship of the Golem (article preview)

Rethinking Rav Acha and Ravina (suppressed article)

Rav Yitzchak bar Avdimi (II)

Speaking From Behind The Fence

Rav Chanina bar Sheila the Tunneler

Who Fashioned A Golem? (article preview)

Why Yedidya?

Burning Incense to his Friend

The Large Zayin in Nivchaz

Rav Hamnuna Loses His Oxen (full article)

Ben Stada

Week in Review

The Meaning of Mekayeim, and a possible Hidden Derasha

Consistency in Rava saying באומר מותר

Rava as a Youngster

Synesthesia and Seeing the Sounds (article summary)

Rava and Mistakenly Permitted Idolatry?

Rabbi Zakkai the Amora

Seething a Kid in its Mother's Milk

Was Rabbi Meir a student of Rabbi Eliezer?

Hidden Derasha: A World Built Upon Incest

Yitro's Multivalent Joy

Week in Review

Synesthesia at Har Sinai (article preview)

Yitro: Rashbam and the Dagesh in וַיִּ֣חַדְּ

Yossi or Yosa?

And All of Rav's Students (article summary)

Humiliation for Bestiality

"Love Thy Neighbor as Thyself" as a Meta-halachic Principle?

(Past) Week in Review

And All of Rav's Students (article preview)

Mistranslated Zoos and Grammatical Analyses

Rav Pappa the Elder

Some Beshalach Thoughts, and Recommending Torah Temima

The Tower of Silence

Rav Sechora (article summary)

Censored Sefornos in Beshalach

ChatGPT with RAG and Reasoning Ability, on Eliyahu Munk's Rabbinic Ordination

Week in Review

The Censored Execution

Rav Sechora (article preview)

Is Rabbi Yossi (ben Chalafta) being Chutzpadik to his Teacher?

The Invention of an Amora

Rashbam on Bo, and a Slightly Askew Translation

Wrestling with Ben Zakkai

Ben Zakkai (article summary)

Blinking Sadducees

Rabbi Tarfon treifs some(thing / one) else up

Week in Review

Saving One (Jewish) Life

Ben Zakkai (article preview)

Rabbi Tarfon Declares It Treif

Vaera: Must a Kal Vachomer Be Good?

The Hidden Rejected Derasha about Executing on Shabbat

Bovines with DRM / Copy Protection

Which Amoraim are not Reed Cutters?

Is Assimilation the Worst Thing? Parashot Shemot

Rava Said (To Him), and the Yad HaRav Herzog Manuscript

Non-Overlapping Lifetimes

Week in Review

Erring in Weighing Opinions (full article)

Indeed, Rav didn't cite Pumbeditan Variants

Is the Resh Lakish Intercalation Story Fictional?

Censored Rashbams on parashat Shemot

Would Rav Truly Cite Pumbeditan Variants?

Operationalizing Pesak, part vi: Gemir (and Sevir) as Necessary and Sufficient

Rav Yehuda by Himself or Citing Rav

Three Talmudic Versions on Sanhedrin 24b

The "Rav Ashi" Alternative

Week in Review

Vayechi: One Shechem over your Brothers

The Sons of Rachava (full article)

Forgoing a King's Honor

Scaring them, or Creating a Sense of Awe?

David Betrothing with a Loan

James Randi on the Sanhedrin?

Mapping Descriptors to Names in Sanhedrin 17b

Week in Review

Rav Nachman bar Yitzchak and the Pumbeditan Talmud (full article)

Censored Radak on Vayigash: Divine Conspiracy or Inability?

Operationalizing Pesak, part v: Some Historical Background to YU Chanukkah Lighting, and Back-and-Forth Discussion / Analysis