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On our daf the rabbis gather together to question Dosa ben Harkinas, a Sage well over 100 years old who ruled with Beit Shammai that rival wives were permitted.
Dosa then shares three learnings of Haggai, one of which affirms Beit Hillel’s view on rival wives.
These opinions, one about the poor man’s tithe and the other about converts from Karduyin and Tarmodim, are discussed throughout the remainder of our daf.
We explore the prophecy of Chaggai and the rabbinic views about the ending of ruach hakodesh with the three latter minor prophets with Ezra-Nechemia marking the beginnings of a shift toward rabbinic leadership,
Chagai is to be seen as a transitional work from the prophetic era to the post-prophetic period.