That did the Sages do when they found themselves without answers to halachic issues? What processes were used to discover the answers? Why did these processes lead to different conclusions? Rabbi Lampel examines these issues comprehensively and provides answers that are neither simplistic nor evasive to questions that beginners in Talmud study often suppress. This work makes extensive use of talmudic sources and annotations and includes an introductory perspective based on suggestions made by Rav Shimon Schwab.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
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A mastepiece for both scholars and beginners in Talmud.,
By Andrew Pilsky (Israel) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Dynamics of Dispute: The Makings of Machlokess in Talmudic Times (Paperback)
Whethyer you are a scholar or a beginner in Gemorah/Talmud this is a book for you. It provides answeres to the questions that are usually unanswered. Do you want to know why there are so many disputes in Talmud and yet "These and those are the words of the living G-d" as it says in the Talmud? How could the Sages find themslves uncertain over certain issues if there was a perfect transmission of the Oral Law. This is the book for those who doubt the existence of the Oral Torah altogether. It will open your eyes and give you answers that absolute majority of people that I have met were not capable of answering. I have one got copy of this masterpiece on my shelf and believe it or not I am going to buy another one. At my Yehsivah student have queded up in the library to get their hands on this text. May the Rabbi who wrote this book be blessed with a perfect blessing!
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Needed for every Talmud student,
By Michael M (Israel - variously Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Petah Tiqwa) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Dynamics of Dispute: The Makings of Machlokess in Talmudic Times (Paperback)
This book is absolutely essential for anyone getting into studying the Talmud. As the author points out, almost every student of Talmud has questions on this subject, but rarely do they get answered even after years of study.
An example of the kinds of issues the book deals with: if there is a Sinaic tradition, how could the rabbis argue on these laws? Among the answers are that most of the debates are on extremely fine details. Any details forgotten are almost always details that weren't relevant for many years, and that is how they got forgotten. The drashot (analytical methods of deriving law from Torah) are shown to have been used both to recover forgotten laws and "create" laws for new situations whose law was not explicitly told to Moshe (for example, given that sleeping with your mother's sister, your father's sister, and your sister are three distinct prohibitions, how many prohibitions have you violated if you sleep with your sister who is also your father's sister who is also your mother's sister (this is a VERY incestuous family)?). The teaching that Moshe was taught everything ever innovated in the future by a Torah scholar, is shown to almost certainly not be meant literally, given that these drashot were used to "create" laws for situations not taught to Moshe; most commentators explain, more or less, that Moshe was given the whole Torah in potential form, with all future Torah deriveable from that Moshaic Torah, especially since Moshe was given the exegetical rules used in all future derivations. The book extensively cites passages from the Talmud as evidence for its conclusions, so that its conclusions must never be taken for granted by the reader. An absolute must read.
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