Tag: Tosafists

In "Tosafists & their Meta-Halakhic Agenda" by R. Chaim Rapoport, the author explores the intellectual agenda of the Tosafists, a group of medieval Jewish commentators, and their approach to halakhah (Jewish law).
In Haym Soloveitchik's Collected Essays: Volume III, the author explores the composition and significance of Sefer Hasidim, a medieval Jewish book.
In a debate between Talya Fishman and Haym Soloveitchik regarding Fishman's book "Becoming the People of the Talmud," Fishman defends her multidisciplinary approach aiming to bridge rabbinic scholarship and cultural history despite admitted errors, acknowledging Soloveitchik's corrections promising to address them in future editions.
Talya Fishman's book, "Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Culture," challenges traditional views on the adoption of the Talmud as the central religious text of Judaism.