#mishna — Public Fediverse posts
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"Modern #textual #scholarship has shown that #ToledotYeshu never existed as a single, fixed #composition. Unlike the #Mishna or the #Talmud, whose textual traditions gradually stabilized through widespread printing, Toledot Yeshu remained fluid for centuries. #Scribes copied from whatever exemplars were available, frequently introducing additions, omissions, stylistic revisions, and entirely new #narrative episodes. Rather than preserving a single "original" version, the #manuscript tradition reflects a living #text continually reshaped by its transmitters.
The #Łomżamanuscript is especially noteworthy because it preserves a substantially expanded #recension. Its elaborate title-page introduction immediately distinguishes it from many simpler copies. Throughout the text, the #Hebrew is unusually polished, employing a consciously #biblical style that lends the narrative an air of #antiquity and #literary refinement."
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"Modern #textual #scholarship has shown that #ToledotYeshu never existed as a single, fixed #composition. Unlike the #Mishna or the #Talmud, whose textual traditions gradually stabilized through widespread printing, Toledot Yeshu remained fluid for centuries. #Scribes copied from whatever exemplars were available, frequently introducing additions, omissions, stylistic revisions, and entirely new #narrative episodes. Rather than preserving a single "original" version, the #manuscript tradition reflects a living #text continually reshaped by its transmitters.
The #Łomżamanuscript is especially noteworthy because it preserves a substantially expanded #recension. Its elaborate title-page introduction immediately distinguishes it from many simpler copies. Throughout the text, the #Hebrew is unusually polished, employing a consciously #biblical style that lends the narrative an air of #antiquity and #literary refinement."
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Great jewish argument why #zionism is contreary to #judaism:
"It was only the irreparable consequences of these national calamities [the failed uprising under r. Akiva and Bar Kokhba] that finally persuaded the rising Rabbinic leadership of the third century CE to temper the potent messianic illusions that were the legacy of the Maccabean victory.
According to the Talmud, those embarking to leave the land were required to take multiple oaths of passivity: not to retake the land, not to take up arms against their neighbors and not to tinker with the calendar to find out when the Messiah might come (BT Ketuvot 111a). As in so much of Judaism, moderation was henceforth irrevocably preferred to extremism."
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@Dianora https://www.sefaria.org.il/Tractate_Derekh_Eretz_Zuta.3.3?vhe=Talmud_Bavli,_Vilna_1883_ed.&lang=he&with=all&lang2=he
"Teach your tongue to say 'I don't know'" - #Mishna Tractate Derech Eretz Zuta, ch 3
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@selfagency Your dad's method was still more gentle than the method used in the #BeitHamikdash for a #Levi who fell asleep on the job! #sefaria #mishna #midot
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Today we found this gem in the #Mishna:
https://www.sefaria.org/Mishnah_Berakhot.4.3?lang=bi&with=all&lang2=en
"Rabban Gamliel says: Each and every day a person recites the prayer of eighteen blessings. Rabbi Yehoshua says: A short prayer is sufficient" etc. check out the whole paragraph.
Davening seems to have been a lot more low-key in Mishnaic times!
Also R' Akiva says that if you are not fluent, you can pray less...!