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Daf Ditty

A wide-ranging commentary on the daily page of Talmud.

Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) inspects at his Jerusalem home an English-language translation of the Talmud based on his annotations on June 4, 2018

Moed Katan 5: Rav Yannai’s Offence(s)

jyungar January 17, 2022

For the source text click/tap here: Moed Katan 5

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“Rav Yanai had a student who every day would question him; on the Shabbat of the holidays, he refrained from questioning him. Rav Yanai applied to him the verse, ‘And to him who worders his way will I show the salvation of G-d.”

Rav Yannai takes offence at his student for not attending class.

Elsewhere he offends an Am Ha'am Ha'Aretz (Lev Rabba).

We explore the access of all to Torah , the relative weight of age vs scholarship in Talmud

and some recent teacher/disciple relationships in our time.

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Julian Ungar-Sargon

This is Julian Ungar-Sargon's personal website. It contains poems, essays, and podcasts for the spiritual seeker and interdisciplinary aficionado.​