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		<title>Crib Sheet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:39:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yitz Landes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ah, finals&#8230; In Israel, the period bears multiple names- &#8220;bein hasemesterim&#8220;, &#8220;hufsha&#8220;, &#8220;tekufat hamivkhanim&#8220;, none of which seem to fully own up to the fact that the average BA student has four weeks to complete coursework for around eight classes &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/crib-sheet/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1458&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Simcha Emanuel&#8217;s &#8220;Responsa of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg and his Colleagues&#8221;- Review by Pinchas Roth</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Talmud Blog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Simcha Emanuel, Responsa of Rabbi Meir of Rothenburg and his Colleagues: Critical Edition, Introduction and Notes (Jerusalem: World Union of Jewish Studies, 2012) Review by Pinchas Roth The thirteenth century has a reputation for being a little boring. Coming after &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/simcha-emanuels-responsa-of-rabbi-meir-of-rothenburg-and-his-colleagues-review-by-pinchas-roth/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1516&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reviews Galore</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:47:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shai Secunda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While the Talmud Blog assumes that readers will regularly check its constantly-updated twitter feed (accessible on the top-right of this page and through twitter), there are times when things tweeted might also be blogged, for emphasis. Since 1970, the Journal for the &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/reviews-galore/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1506&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tu Bishvat as Judgement Day in a Poem by Aharon Mirsky</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:59:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ophir Münz-Manor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tu Bishvat (the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Shvat), which is celebrated today, is also known as the New Year of the Trees. This festive date appears for the first time in tractate Rosh Hashana (The New Year) of the &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/tu-bishvat-mirsky/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1468&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Definite Article &#8211; The Book Club II</title>
		<link>http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/definite-article-the-book-club-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shai Secunda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dina Stein]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Moulie Vidas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The &#8216;stammaitic consensus&#8217;, like many so-called consensuses, has paradoxically not yet achieved a total consensus. Still, aside from persistent skepticism emanating mainly from Israeli scholars, the stammaitic &#8216;toolbox&#8217; has virtually become the source-critical method in use among academic Talmud scholars working in the field today. There have &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/06/definite-article-the-book-club-ii/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1467&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do I Read the Talmud?</title>
		<link>http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/why-do-i-read-the-talmud/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 08:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Naiweld</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago I was asked to write an article for a French Jewish Studies Journal &#8211; Tsafon (published by the University of Lille), that would offer to the French scholar a status quaestionis of Talmudic studies. I wrote &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/why-do-i-read-the-talmud/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1439&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>One pesuk, two pesuk, three pesukim more…- Guest Post by Michael Satlow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Talmud Blog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the Babylonian Talmud, authority comes in variety of flavors.  Sometimes a tradition, heard from and cited in the name of a teacher, carries the day.  At other times, logic wins.  The behavior of a rabbi, the opinion of an &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/26/one-pesuk-two-pesuk-three-pesukim-more-guest-post-by-michael-satlow/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1424&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Updates Regarding the TBBC</title>
		<link>http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/updates-regarding-the-tbbc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 16:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Talmud Blog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As announced a few weeks ago, starting February 6th we&#8217;ll be discussing Zvi Septimus&#8217; article “Trigger Words and Simultexts: The Experience of Reading the Bavli,” in Barry Scott Wimpfheimer, ed. Wisdom of Bat Sheva: In Memory of Beth Samuels (Jersey City, NJ: Ktav, &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/updates-regarding-the-tbbc/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1415&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vered Noam on Josephus and the Rabbis</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:53:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yitz Landes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow at 10:30 Prof. Vered Noam will deliver a paper entitled &#8220;The Story of King Jannaeus in b. Qiddushin 66a—A Pharisaic Reply to Sectarian Polemic&#8221;. The lecture is part of the Orion Center&#8216;s Greenfield Scholars Seminars and will take place in room 2001 &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/vered-noam-on-josephus-and-the-rabbis/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1399&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Clearing out the Living Room</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the Talmud Blog&#8217;s first Book Club winds down, we are happy to present you with the author&#8217;s response to the discussion. His words will only make sense if you first read the comments, and his response appears here and &#8230; <a href="http://thetalmudblog.wordpress.com/2012/01/12/clearing-out-the-living-room/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thetalmudblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=24683110&amp;post=1384&amp;subd=thetalmudblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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