Monday:

1. Monday: www.ucalgary.ca/~elsegal/TalmudMap/MG.html Masorah Chapter numbers Targum (a few links) Sedrah Wednesday: Breslauer chapter 4.

2. G. Question: When is it evening? • Tanna mentioned the offerings • Why? • Amora assumes that Tanna knew: evening was when the time the stars come out. • Answer: to teach something else: the time of the priests ate the offerings.

3. Digression: • Ritual impurity • Does the coming of evening remove some impurity? • Yes

4. Back to the point… • Mishnah refers to offerings • Another text t refers to a poor man’s evening meal. • Solution: both events were simultaneous.

5. Later discussions • Added to Talmud in Medieval period.

6. “RASHI” • R. Solomon ben Isaac • 1040 – 1105: France • Interpreted Talmud words in order of appearance. • “When is it morning? When you can see the white spots in poorly died wool.”

7. TOSAFOT • “Additions” to Rashi’s commentary. • 12-13 century: • Rashi wrong: Another commandment: wear fringes on garments: blue and white. • When you can tell these apart. • Try to bring all of Talmud into a consistent whole.

8. Other commentaries • Medieval to renaissance. • Sometimes shows differing cultural traits of Jews in different parts of the world.

9. Later Glosses • Up to late 19th century • Cross-references etc.

10. Oral Torah • Tannaim  Mishnah • Amoraim  Talmuds • Mishnah • Talmud. • Midrash

11. 2 kinds of writing • Halakhah = legal discussions. • Aggadah (Haggadah) = non-legal

12. AggadahHaggadah • Non-legal portions of Oral Torah. • Stories, Midrash • Moral lessons etc.

13. Aggadah • Rav Judah said in Rav’s name: The Holy One … did not create a single thing in all his world which has no purpose. He created the snail as a remedy for a scab…A serpent is a remedy for a boil. What is the treatment? One black and white serpent … boiled to a pulp and then rubbed in..Talmud: Shabbath 77.

14. Halakhah: “the way” • Legal discussions in Oral Torah

15. Mitzvah / MitzvotCommandments 365 prohibitions + 248 requirements (248 = body parts)----- 613

16. 613 = TORaH. T is 400 + W (o) is 6 + R is 200 + H is 5 = 611 + 2 = 613 • Extra 2 come from commandments which precede creation. • I am the Lord, your God You shall have no other gods before Me.

17. 613 • Some overlap between + and – mitzvot, • Some very plain, others come from talmudic interpretation. Grace after meals inferred from "and you will eat and be satisfied and bless the Lord your God“.

18. Not all applicable • No temple • Some apply only to Israel.

19. Gezeirah, “Fence” • Mitzvah: no work on Sabbath • Gezeirah: do not touch implements of work

20. Takkanah • Non-biblical law • Candles at Hanukkah • Regional variation

21. Minhag • Binding Custom • Extra day of holidays outside of Israel, even after proper calendars made. • Kippas

22. Halakhah Mitzvot Gezeirah Takkanah Minhag

23. Law, not legalism • Self – Transformation • Dignity not Dogma

24. Spirit, not letter of Torah • “Eye for an eye” • means compensation not mutilation

25. Golden rule • Concerned with others, not yourself = love and fear of God

26. Emunah, Faith • Righteous live by faith

27. Non-esoteric? • Often against esoteric speculation. • Every letter in Torah holds meaning.

28. Divine Truth • This world • The inner-person