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Aggadah as Midrash Halakhah: Methodologies and Hiddush in the Tanur shel Akhnai NarrativeĀ 

JL;DR SUMMARY The article by Dvir and Shalhevet Cahana explores the interplay between Aggadah and Halakhah in Talmudic literature, particularly through the narrative of Tanur shel Akhnai. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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TalmudJewish LawModern OrthodoxHalakhahMidrashAggadahLiterary AnalysisRabbi EliezerRabbinic DiscourseTanur Shel Akhnai

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Central District, Israel
"I heard this in the name of Rabbi Jesse Horn of Yeshivat HaKotel many years ago."
New York City, New York, United States
"Rabbi Dr. Jeffrey Rubenstein, a professor at NYUs Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, is known for an innovative approach to aggadic analysis: read Aggadeta in conversation with the surrounding Hilkheta."
South Korea
"So much so that some students in Korea learn Talmud in order to develop their capacity for nuanced, rigorous logic."

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