בעין אגדת הירושלמי review

בעין אגדת הירושלמי יפה זלכה

In the Eyes of the Aggadah of the Yerushalmi  Yaffa Zilkah

Beit Morasha of Jerusalem 264 pp.

This interesting book explores various midrashim in the Yerushalmi and Babli.  The author describes how the angst and immediacy of the midrash in the Yerushalmi becomes with distance and time the more universal pathos of the Bavli.  For example, the same midrash in the Yerushalmi tends to have the place name and centers or opens with a mitzvah which is just done in Eretz Yisrael while these elements tend to get lost in the same version in the the Bavli.  It is well written and draws much of its inspiration from the writings of Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook.

Aryeh Shore 

סדר " תענית" כיצד review

סדר " תענית" כיצד  ?

 מסכת תעניות בירושלמי. דרכי עיצוב המסורת ועריכתן.  נורית בארי הוצאת אוניברסיטת בר אילן

   435  pages 

תשס"ט

 Exploring Ta'aniot 

Yerushalmi Tractate Ta'aniot - Forming and Redacting the Traditions

This is an excellent book in excellent Hebrew.  Some passages are so well written as to be considered of literary merit by themselves.  I found the observations that the original editing was just grouping braitot and the second stage was a formulistic "ask, answer, why, why" putting the braitot in a form for easy memory very useful.  A particular interesting explanation is given on how the insistence on conserving the original braitot leads to some awkward structures.  Similarly appreciated the explanations of how the prefaces of the sugiahs were place by the editors, explaining why the same sentence appears twice in a section. I believe her use of an excel chart to plot the frequency of Tanaim quoted in each generation is a sort of a first. (However, it the chart did not display any SD bars.)

מעשר שני מהדורת שוטנשיטן

 

מעשר שני

מהדורת שוטנשטין

אריה שור

This is the first time I have used a Shottenstein Talmud and it will be the last.  Since maaser sheni has many parallels in Bavli, one can easily compare the same sugyah in Halacha Brura and Steinsoltz. The Shottenstein seems to have the unique ability to take a simple sugyah and, using its weird sort of Hebrew, turn it into mishmash. One way it does this is by constantly referring the reader to fuller explanations in booklets which cannot be found outside the walls of Ponevitz.  My feelings are if the GRA says the text is corrupt and crosses out a sentence or moves a sentence that is good enough for me. There is no need to prove that the original text is possible if we first assume that cows can fly.

Comments

יא:  2-

מראה הפנים תרומות נד            לא יא

רשי בבא בתרא יח  א ד"ה ואת הכרישין

Why not just write poireau? (which is the one word Rashi referred to)

Is it such a sin to use a word in a foreign language?

יט.   . -2  .

רק נחשבים כ"פירות"

ראה ריטב"א מסכת בבא מציעה מד ב  ד"ה והא

 מה ב ד"ה אלא

 I could not find any paragraph beginning with these words on these pages nor anything relevant on the surrounding pages similar to the

שיטה מקובצת.

מד ב ד"ה לא יעשה

לא יעשה אדם סלעים דינרין

תימא דאמרינן לקמן דמחללין כסף על נחשה מדוחק

 ואמאי והא לא מחללין טיבעא אפירא

 ואע״ג  נחשת הוי טיבעא לגבי פירא

ה״נ הוי דהבא טיבעא לגבי פירא

ואפ"ה אין מחללין עליה סלעים

ויש לומר הכא מרבנן הוא ולא יעשה גליון תוס׳:

Nor anything similar in the last of the four citations.

ר"ש סיריליאו יט ב

יט:   : -  1

ראה בין  המשפתים  מז            לא יט

 כה.. -1 

אתוון דאורייתא כח                לא טו

ל.    -2

שער המלך   

The book lacks a complete bibliography of the books used and as such one has to guess which

שער המלך  

It is referring to in this case

יצחק בן משה נוניס-בילמונטי

מה. -2    :

האסורים ליטמא למתים        לא לימטא

 מז:    -1

אגדת אליהו

 איזה דף?    חלק א קיט:

נז.      .-2   .

ראה אנציקלופדיה תלמודית ערך ודוי מעשר ציון 173

This is the first time I have seen a reference to a footnote in the Talmudic encyclopedia. However  it is not the only one in the book. I believe one of the editors is also an editor for the Talmudic Encyclopedia.