Result: Legal authority and verbal harm in a Talmudic narrative
הוצא לאור ב:
CCAR Journal; a Reform Jewish Quarterly. - ISSN 0149-712X. - 61,4 (2014) 47-56
דפוס/יצירה:
2014
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שפה:
אנגלית
הערות:
On the debate about "the oven of akhnai" in Bava Metzia 59a-b. The story is told after a discussion of being careful not to mistreat another person and the power of prayers. The story concerns a debate which was held over the halakhic status of a new type of oven. In the course of the rabbinic scholars' discussion, they expressed differing views on the nature of law and authority, concerns over the problem of a fractured and divisive Jewish leadership following the destruction of the Temple, and the issue of taking care not to harm another person by words or deeds, which arose due to the severe altercation between Rabban Gamliel and Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus which led to the latter's ostracization.