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News Roundup – Thur. 3/25

March 26, 2010
By Berl Blackman
News Roundup – Thur. 3/25

A section of the Jerusalem Talmud’s Tractate Bikkurim is now intelligible. No, really, it is. It was once missing a sentence, but the sentence has now been found in a tin can in…


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Sin, Samantha, and the Talmud

March 3, 2010
By Chezkel Shammes
Sin, Samantha, and the Talmud

One who sees his evil inclination getting the better of him should dress in black and go to a place where he isn’t known. That’s the famous passage in the Talmud that played in…


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‘Nafkeh Mineh L’kedushin’ and The Quadratic Equation

January 20, 2010
By Samuel Katz

Every Yeshiva boy learns about Nafkeh Mineh L’kedushin at some point. Nafkeh Mineh L’kedushin is used to justify a perpetual Talmudic argument that has no practical implications. For example, if two guys are arguing…


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