Monday 27 May 2024

Sepharadi and Ashkenazi Talmudic methodologies compared

 Here is a recording of my Shiur last night regarding the contrasting Talmudic and Halachic methodologies of Sepharad (Rambam, Rif and Geonim) on the one hand, and Ashkenaz -- represented by the Baalei Tosafot on the other.

First posted on Facebook 11 January 2024, here.


Reasons for mitzvot: the hidden and revealed

In one particularly mysterious verse from yesterday’s Torah reading we are told “The hidden matters are for Hashem our God, and the revealed...