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

“While he is welcomed and greeted above, she has only limited time to state her case and claim what is hers to those below”

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Ketubot 104: Rebbe's Maidservant

jyungar October 18, 2022

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We learn more about the death of Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi. It seems that no-one was permitted to say that he was to die lest he be stabbed with a sword, though HaNasi was suffering terribly, putting on and taking off his tefillin multiple times while going back and forth from the bed to the bathroom and back. The rabbis refused to stop begging G-d for Rabbi Yehuda HaNasi's recovery.

His maidservant, however, known to be a wise, pious and witty, went to the roof and prayed for G-d to help the upper world impose its will on the lower will. She then broke a jug. The crash startled the rabbis into silence for a moment, at which time the Rabbi died.

We explore the halachic ramifications of suffering and dying as well as recent approaches to physician aid in the dying process.

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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.​